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Yehuda Cohen
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Stop 1 of 11940Born
MashhadמשהדNortheast Iran — Shi'a shrine city
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About Mashhad
The Jewish community of Mashhad, near the Imam Reza shrine, was forced to convert outwardly to Shi'a Islam in the Allahdad pogrom of 1839 — practicing Judaism in secret for over a century while maintaining the public appearance of being Muslim ('Jadid al-Islam').
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