History of the Jews in Kairouan

The Tunisian city of Kairouan (also known as Kairwan or El Qayrawan; Hebrew: קירואן; Arabic: القيروان; Tunisian Arabic: قيروان) was a world center of Talmudic and Halakhic scholarship for at least three generations. == Early history == The first Jews arrived in Kairouan with its founders from the Cyrenaica region of what is today Libya, and a second wave of Jewish settlers arrived at the end of the 7th century.

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