Isfahan: al-Yahudiyya

Tradition. The Jewish quarter is attested by geographers. The founding stories are traditional.

This photograph shows the modern city, or the Wikipedia lead subject, rather than the ancient site itself.

Medieval Arabic geographers say Isfahan's Jewish town, al-Yahudiyya, was founded by Jews settled there by Nebuchadnezzar or by Shapur II's Jewish queen. It became the core of the later city. It was also the base of the 8th-century messianic leader Abu 'Isa al-Isfahani.

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