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height="350" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="326" data-file-height="350" /></a><figcaption>Map of Oman</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>history of the Jews in Oman</b> reaches back to the 800s. There was a <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jewish</a> presence in <a href="/wiki/Oman" title="Oman">Oman</a> for many centuries; however, the Jewish community of the country is no longer in existence. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ishaq_bin_Yahuda">Ishaq bin Yahuda</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_Jews_in_Oman&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Ishaq bin Yahuda"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The documented Omani Jewish community was made famous by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ishaq_bin_Yahuda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ishaq bin Yahuda (page does not exist)">Ishaq bin Yahuda</a>, a merchant who lived in the 9th century. Bin Yahuda lived in <a href="/wiki/Sohar" title="Sohar">Sohar</a>, and sailed for China between the years of 882 and 912 after an argument with a Jewish colleague, where he made a great fortune. He returned to Sohar and sailed for China again, but his ship was seized and bin Yahuda was murdered at the port of <a href="/wiki/Sumatra" title="Sumatra">Sumatra</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Benjamin_of_Tudela_visits_Muscat">Benjamin of Tudela visits Muscat</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_Jews_in_Oman&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Benjamin of Tudela visits Muscat"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Benjamin_of_Tudela_route.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Benjamin_of_Tudela_route.jpg/400px-Benjamin_of_Tudela_route.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="243" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Benjamin_of_Tudela_route.jpg/600px-Benjamin_of_Tudela_route.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Benjamin_of_Tudela_route.jpg/800px-Benjamin_of_Tudela_route.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1216" data-file-height="740" /></a><figcaption>Map of the route.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>A historical journey to visit far-flung Jewish communities was undertaken by Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_of_Tudela" title="Benjamin of Tudela">Benjamin of Tudela</a> from 1165 to 1173 that crossed and tracked some of the areas that are today in the geographic area of Oman. His trek began as a pilgrimage to the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Land" title="Holy Land">Holy Land</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He may have hoped to settle there, but there is controversy about the reasons for his travels. It has been suggested he may have had a commercial motive as well as a religious one. On the other hand, he may have intended to catalogue the Jewish communities on the route to the Holy Land so as to provide a guide to where hospitality may have been found for Jews travelling to the Holy Land.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He took the "long road" stopping frequently, meeting people, visiting places, describing occupations and giving a demographic count of Jews in every town and country. </p><p>One of the known towns that Benjamin of Tudela reported as having a Jewish community was <a href="/wiki/Muscat,_Oman" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscat, Oman">Muscat</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> located in the area of <a href="/wiki/Oman" title="Oman">Oman</a> in the northern part of the <a href="/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula" title="Arabian Peninsula">Arabian Peninsula</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_community">Later community</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_Jews_in_Oman&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Later community"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the mid-19th century, the British Lieutenant <a href="/wiki/James_Raymond_Wellsted" title="James Raymond Wellsted">James Raymond Wellsted</a> documented the Jews of <a href="/wiki/Muscat,_Oman" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscat, Oman">Muscat</a> in his memoirs <i>Travels in Arabia, vol. 1</i>. He mentions that there are <i>"a few Jews in Muskat (sic), who mostly arrived there in 1828, being driven from <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>...by the cruelties and extortions of the Pacha Daud."</i> He also notes that Jews were not discriminated against at all in Oman, which was not the case in other Arab countries (they did not have to live in Ghettos, nor identify themselves as Jews, not walk in the road if a <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> was walking on the same street, as was the case in Yemen). The Jews of Muscat were employed mostly in the making of silver ornaments, banking, and liquor sale. Despite the lack of persecution in Oman, the community is believed to have disappeared before 1900. During World War II, a <a href="/wiki/Jewish_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish American">Jewish American</a> Army enlisted man, Emanuel Glick, encountered a small community of Omani Jews in Muscat, but this community consisted mostly of recent migrants from <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Jews in Yemen">Yemen</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_politics">Modern politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_Jews_in_Oman&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Modern politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Omani officials have begun to reach out to <a href="/wiki/Jewish_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish American">Jewish American</a> and Israeli leaders. In 2008, the <a href="/wiki/American_Jewish_Committee" title="American Jewish Committee">American Jewish Committee</a> hosted a meeting at which: "Israeli and Omani leaders gathered at AJC to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Middle East Desalination Research Center, one of the success stories of efforts to deepen Arab-Israeli cooperation. Speakers include Sayyid Badr, secretary-general of the <a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Oman" title="Foreign relations of Oman">Foreign Ministry of Oman</a>; Israeli Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Tzipi_Livni" title="Tzipi Livni">Tzipi Livni</a>; and Charles Lawson of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" title="United States Department of State">U.S. State Department</a>. (Video: <i>Israeli, Omani Leaders Celebrate</i>.)<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Jews_in_the_Arabian_Peninsula">Jews in the Arabian Peninsula</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_Jews_in_Oman&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Jews in the Arabian Peninsula"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote 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of the Jews in Saudi Arabia">History of the Jews in Saudi Arabia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates" title="History of the Jews in the United Arab Emirates">History of the Jews in the United Arab Emirates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemenite_Jews" title="Yemenite Jews">Yemenite Jews</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_Jews_in_Oman&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Oman" title="History of Oman">History of Oman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Oman_relations" title="Israel–Oman relations">Oman-Israel Relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abrahamic_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Abrahamic religion">Abrahamic religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arab_Jews" title="Arab Jews">Arab Jews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arab_states_of_the_Persian_Gulf" title="Arab states of the Persian Gulf">Arab states of the Persian Gulf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Babylonian_captivity" title="Babylonian captivity">Babylonian captivity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Arabian_Peninsula" title="History of the Jews in the Arabian Peninsula">History of the Jews in the Arabian Peninsula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_under_Muslim_rule" title="History of the Jews under Muslim rule">History of the Jews under Muslim rule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_world" title="Jewish exodus from the Muslim world">Jewish exodus from the Muslim world</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jews_outside_Europe_under_Axis_occupation" title="Jews outside Europe under Axis occupation">Jews outside Europe under Axis occupation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Jews_from_the_Arab_World" class="mw-redirect" 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">11 February</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Video%3A+%22Israeli%2C+Omani+Leaders+Celebrate%22&rft.pub=ajc.org&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ajc.org%2Fsite%2Fc.ijITI2PHKoG%2Fb.3447305%2Fk.9B4D%2FItafar_Dinner.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+the+Jews+in+Oman" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sandiegojewishworld.com/oman/salalah/tomb_of_job/19980320-job_tomb_oman.htm#top">Tomb of Job</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/omanjews.html">Oman's Jews</a> (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History_and_travels_of_Benjamin_of_Tudela">History and travels of Benjamin of Tudela</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_Jews_in_Oman&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: History and travels of Benjamin of Tudela"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Benjamin of Tudela. <i>The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela: Travels in the Middle Ages</i>. trans. Joseph Simon. Pangloss Press, 1993. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-934710-07-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-934710-07-4">0-934710-07-4</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.teachittome.com/seforim2/seforim/masaos_binyomin_mitudela_with_english.pdf"><i>The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela</i>.</a> trans. Marcus Nathan Adler. 1907: includes map of route (p. 2) and commentary.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5769">Works by Benjamin of Tudela</a> at <a href="/wiki/Project_Gutenberg" title="Project Gutenberg">Project Gutenberg</a></li> <li>Shatzmiller, Joseph. "Jews, Pilgrimage, and the Christian Cult of Saints: Benjamin of Tudela and His Contemporaries." <i>After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History</i>. 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