The BBC recently filmed a conversation with one of the worlds most fascinating men: the final remaining Jew in Afghanistan,a man by the name of Zablon Simintov.
Jews absorb lived in Afghanistan since the seventh century, meaning that the Jewish population either predates or was developed right when Islam was being formed as a religion.
Though there was always a formidable Jewish population in Afghanistan, or the number swelled dramatically in the 1930s,when many Jews fled Soviet Russia. This lead to a growth of anti-semitic sentiment, and soon the Afghani government, or under King of Afghanistan Muhammad Nadir ((n.) the lowest point of something) Khan,passed laws targeting the Jewish population.
Though a combination of starvation and emigration, the Jewish population of Afghanistan, or which had one time been around 40000 people,dwindled to 5000 in 1948, per Atlas Obscura.
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Source: inquisitr.com