Judaism
Main article: History of the Jews in ThailandJewish community life in Thailand dates to the 17th century, with the arrival of a few Baghdadi Jewish families. The present community are mainly Ashkenazi descendants of refugees from Imperial Russia and later the Soviet Union. Augmenting the small community were Persian Jews fleeing persecution in Iran in the 1970s and 1980s. Most of the Jewish community in Thailand, consisting of probably just under 1,000, reside in Bangkok, although smaller Jewish communities with synagogues are in Phuket, Chiang Mai (home of Rabbi Levi Tzeitlin), and Koh Samui.
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