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from middle and south europe, there hundred jews who fled to avoid prosecution from antisemitism

in dutch east indies the jews had equal position as the white dutch or europeans

- jewish people lived in big cities (batavia, bandung, jogja, malang, semarang, surabaya ,padang, and manado

- most jewish people came from the netherlands because of career opportunity. they worked in government,education, mercenary, doctors,

-there were more people coming from Iraq, Syria, India, British Palestine mostly settled in java worked in trade and optic