List of Asian Jews


Jews have been present in Asia since the beginning of their history. Some examples of ancient Jewish communities in the Mediterranean and Iran and Iraq ; the Georgian Jews, Bukharian Jews, and Mountain Jews.
Through the centuries, they also established Jewish communities in eastern parts of Asia. There are some Jews who migrated to India, establishing the Bene Israel, the Baghdadi Jews and the Cochin Jews of India ; and the former Jewish community in Kaifeng, China.
Here is a partial list of some prominent Asian Jews, arranged by country. Those regions of Asia where Arabic or Russian or Turkish predominate are excluded from this list ; see Middle Eastern Jews, Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardi Jews for information on these populations.

Armenia

A small community of Jews lived mainly in Herat, Afghanistan and Kabul, but they emigrated to Israel, Europe and the United States. In September 2021, the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan, Zablon Simintov, fled Afghanistan's capital Kabul in response to the Taliban takeover several weeks prior.

China

Japan

; Refugees, short expatriates
; Other related people to Judaism and Jews in Japan