Jewish Families in Ancient Babylonia

Question

I've been fascinated by a number of profiles on WikiTree of Jewish persons living in ancient Babylonia.  Some of them have good sourcing in contemporary secular records, but many of them have only ancestry or Geni genealogies to describe who they are or when they lived.  

If you can identify sources which will help shed light on these people, you'll help improve many profiles!  I'm currently adding the category:

[[Category:  Jewish Families in Ancient Babylonia]]

to these profiles as I come across them because they're a distinct group of people who appear to be quite interrelated.   I suspect some of them may be legendary but others may be historic and at this point it's hard to tell which is which.  

If you come across profiles that belong in this category, please add it, and if you know of good sources that would help document them, please share them!

Comments

Thanks, Jack!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_captivity

"The Babylonian captivity or Babylonian exile is the period in Jewish history during which a number of Judahites of the ancient Kingdom of Judah were captives in Babylonia. After the Battle of Carchemish in 605 BCE,..."

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This is true.  But after many of the Jews returned to Judah after the defeat of Babylon, many others remained there, and were still there 1000 years later under Persian rule in 500 CE and then after the Arab Conquest in 630 something and under both Ummayid and Abbassid Caliphates and beyond. WikiTree does not entertain profiles of people before the year 1 CE, so the profiles addressed here are after that date.

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The original Babylon was near Cairo and is still a part of that City.   Originally it was called Per-Hapi-En-On - The House of Hapi of Iwnw.  Hapi was the Nile God and Iwnw was the City of the IU (Jews).   A map of Cairo dated 1757 says 'formerly Babylon'.    Strabo mentioned that the other Babylon was the second so migrants took the name with them as happens so many times when people move countries.