Iranian Jewish traditions?

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Hey, I hope this is the right place to post this, I've been wondering a long time, about the Jews of Iran, do they use the same Babylonian Talmud of Ashkenazi Jews, or do they have their own traditions along with the Tanakh. Since they have been in Iran/Persia for about 2400 years, from about 600BC, I assume they would have alot of their own traditions and records? I've been looking them up on google but it's not very helpful with this specific question. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

As I understand it Jews in Iran are in the category of the "Mizrahi Jews", or "Oriental Jews". Which is what most of the Jews of the Arab world from Egypt eastward are ( sometimes they are even called "Arab Jews" which may sound like an oxymoron). Jews of the western part of north africa, and Spain (the latter of which got expelled to Turkey and the Levant around 1500 AD) are another group called the Sephardic Jews.

Israel's own population is largely either east European Ashkenazi Jews(Like American Jews largely from Poland, Russia, or places like Lithuania, or Hungary), or Oriental Jews from the surrounding Arab countries. Israel's biggest singing star , Ofra Haza, was a Mizrahi from a family of refugees from Yemen.

I remember there were two groups of Jews groups in Egypt and they were so in conflicted beliefs to the point that they forbid inter-marriage between them.

Souad Zaki was an Egyptian Diva and strongly pro-zionist, yet moved to Israel and became a cleaning lady in Tel Aviv - her singing meant nothing for non-arabic speaking audience. Leila Murad was a jewish born Egyptian Diva too.

Lebanon's jews were a multinational group, most went to israel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o ... in_Lebanon

Thanks, that kinda helps, i'll look up Mizrahi Jews.