To the historians of sspot where there somali jews?

[Yeri]

I stumbled across this wikipedia page.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jews_in_Somalia

How accurate is this?

 

[killerxsmoke]

I stumbled across this wikipedia page.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jews_in_Somalia

How accurate is this?

There were Yemeni jews in Mogadishu until the 1970s when somalia joined the arab league in which they were pissed about and had to leave

 

[Internet Nomad]

There were Yemeni jews in Mogadishu until the 1970s when somalia joined the arab league in which they were pissed about and had to leave

Were there any ethnic somalis who were jews?

 

[mohammdov]

The only thing I know about these Yibir They used to take two lambs from us for every male Isaaq born, because we believed that we had killed their grandfather and that they were witches. If we did not give them the two lambs, we would be cursed They have been fooled for ages Even when my father was born, my grandfather gave them two sheep .

 

[killerxsmoke]

Were there any ethnic somalis who were jews?

Nah not one I know of, but there is a tradition that yibir were jews that became muslims

 

[Internet Nomad]

The only thing I know about these Yibir They used to take two lambs from us for every male Isaaq born, because we believed that we had killed their grandfather and that they were witches. If we did not give them the two lambs, we would be cursed They have been fooled for ages Even when my father was born, my grandfather gave them two sheep .

Passive income

 

[mohammdov]

Passive income

Maybe they are actually Jews, so they deceived us and made a fortune easily

 

[zeila2wajir]

Historical evidence suggests there were once Somali Jewish and Christian communities in pre Islamic Somalia, judging by the ruins they’ve seen. Considering where we were located in the world, it shouldn’t be surprising we did have such communities. We also used to have Yemeni Jews join their Yemeni kinsmen in our country until the mid twentieth century.

 

[Somali_patriotic]

Historical evidence suggests there were once Somali Jewish and Christian communities in pre Islamic Somalia, judging by the ruins they’ve seen. Considering where we were located in the world, it shouldn’t be surprising we did have such communities. We also used to have Yemeni Jews join their Yemeni kinsmen in our country until the mid twentieth century.

Except for yemeni jews there were no other "somali" jews in the era
Also what ruins? Somalis were never Christians.

 

[hinters]

Passive income

Reperations

 

[Emir of Zayla]

Outside of Yibirs, there were some Yemeni Jews living in coastal towns

 

[Aurelian]

No, some idiots may claim Yibir are jews, but historic facts debunk this. Theere were jews in Somalia, manily Yemeni jews traders. They all gone after Yemeni jews left yemen for Israel. But Yibbirs are ethnic Somalis with no Jewish affiliation what so ever.

 

[Emir of Zayla]

No, some idiots may claim Yibir are jews, but historic facts debunk this. Theere were jews in Somalia, manily Yemeni jews traders. They all gone after Yemeni jews left yemen for Israel. But Yibbirs are ethnic Somalis with no Jewish affiliation what so ever.

Tho interestingly I once read that the word yibir had smth to do with the aramaic word for Jews

 

[Aurelian]

Tho interestingly I once read that the word yibir had smth to do with the aramaic word for Jews

prove it

 

[NidarNidar]

Yibir are probably related to the Beta Israeli but we won't know until we get more genetic evidence.

 

[JustSomeGuy]

Historical evidence suggests there were once Somali Jewish and Christian communities in pre Islamic Somalia, judging by the ruins they’ve seen. Considering where we were located in the world, it shouldn’t be surprising we did have such communities. We also used to have Yemeni Jews join their Yemeni kinsmen in our country until the mid twentieth century.

Most of them weren't ethnic Somalis probably Yemeni or Ethiopian refugees/immigrants or something. Ethnic Somali Jews are probably only like 50 throughout history.

 

[Burqad]

Tho interestingly I once read that the word yibir had smth to do with the aramaic word for Jews

No, yibir is related to the Rendiile word Iibere, Suugo Etymology isn’t real. They were the pre-Islamic priests of the pre-Somali people.

they don’t claim to be Jewish and are ethnically Somali.

 

[Somali_patriotic]

No, yibir is related to the Rendiile word Iibere, Suugo Etymology isn’t real. They were the pre-Islamic priests of the pre-Somali people.

they don’t claim to be Jewish and are ethnically Somali.

Priests of waaq?

 

[Burqad]

Priests of waaq? View attachment 301032

Not waaq (which means heaven in Somali and not god) but they were wizards/magicians who were believed to have power over different aspects/elements depending on their family.

 

[Burqad]

BTW it’s another suugo science myth that waaq means God in proto-Somali. It means heaven. Oromo Waaqism was actually invented in the 1500’s, it’s not at all an ancient religion.

https://www.eth.mpg.de/4419181/FN_Vol07_Rendille_TheSocialBeliefSystem_webrevised.pdf

See Gunther Schlee’s the Social Belief system of the Rendille