Kirchamba is a village and
commune of the
Cercle of Diré in the
Tombouctou Region of
Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...
. As of 1998 the commune had a population of 2,305.
History
Kirchamba was founded by the Kehath (Ka'ti) family,
Spanish Sephardi Jews
Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, Djudíos Sefardíes), also ''Sepharadim'' , Modern Hebrew: ''Sfaradim'', Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm, also , ''Ye'hude Sepharad'', lit. "The Jews of Spain", es, Judíos sefardíes (or ), pt, Judeus sefar ...
who were descended from Ismael Jan Kot Al-yahudi of
Scheida in Southern Morocco. The Kehath (Ka'ti) family settled in the Songhai Empire in 1492. The Kehath family later converted to Islam along with the rest of the local non-Muslim population.
See also
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Jews of Bilad el-Sudan
Jews of the Bilad al-Sudan (Judeo-Arabic: ) describes West African Jewish communities which were connected to known Jewish communities which were expelled from the Middle East, North Africa, or Spain and Portugal and migrated to West Africa. Variou ...
References
Communes of Tombouctou Region
Historic Jewish communities in Africa
Jews and Judaism in Mali
Moroccan diaspora in Africa
Moroccan-Jewish diaspora
Sephardi Jewish culture in Africa
Spanish diaspora in Africa
Spanish-Jewish diaspora
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