As an indigenous West Asian people, Jews have been present in western Asia since the beginning of their history. Some examples of ancient Jewish communities in the Mediterranean and Caucasus are: Iran (Persian Jews) and Iraq (Iraqi Jews); the Georgian Jews and Mountain Jews of the Caucasus. Through the centuries, they also established Jewish communities in eastern parts of Asia. There are Bukharan Jews of Central Asia. Some Jews migrated to India, establishing the Bene Israel, the Baghdadi Jews and the Cochin Jews of India (Jews in India); and the former Jewish community in Kaifeng, China. Here is a partial list of some prominent Asian Jews, arranged by country. Note that those regions of Asia where Arabic or Russian or Turkish predominate are excluded from this list (except for the Baghdadi Jews from India and Southeast Asia); see Middle Eastern Jews, Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardi Jews for information on these populations. Armenia Levon Aronian, Armenian chess player (part Jewish) Azerbaijan Misha Black, designer; brother of Max Black Bella Davidovich, pianist Gavril Abramovich Ilizarov, Soviet physician, known for inventing the Ilizarov apparatus Lev Landau, physicist, Nobel Prize (1962). Russian-speaking Ashkenazi. Lev Nussimbaum, writer (a.k.a. Kurban Said) Vladimir Rokhlin, mathematician. Russian-speaking Ashkenazi. Afghanistan A small community of Jews lived mainly in Herat, Afghanistan and Kabul, but they emigrated to Israel, Europe and the United States. In September 2021, the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan, Zablon Simintov, fled Afghanistan 's capital Kabul in response to the Taliban takeover several weeks prior. China Morris Cohen, bodyguard of Sun Yat-Sen Misha Dichter, pianist (China-born) Israel Epstein, journalist, author Edmond Fischer, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1992) Jakob Rosenfeld, doctor and general in the People's Liberation Army Sidney Shapiro, member of the People's Political Consultative Council Zhao Yingcheng, (Hebrew: Moshe ben Abram), Ming dynasty mandarin Georgia David Baazov, Zionist activist and rabbi Ioseb Bardanashvili, composer Roman Dzindzichashvili, American chess player Yasha Manasherov, Israeli Greco-Roman wrestler Mikhael Mirilashvili, businessman and philanthropist Tamir Sapir, businessman and investor Gocha Tsitsiashvili, Israeli Greco-Roman wrestler Hong Kong Ellis, Elly, Lawrence, and Michael Kadoorie, businesspeople Matthew Nathan, Hong Kong governor (1904) Victor Sassoon, businessman and hotelier India Sarah Avraham, Indian-born Israeli, 2014 women's world Thai kickboxing champion Joseph Rabban, given copper plates of special grants from the Chera ruler Bhaskara Ravivarman II from Kerala in South India David Abraham Cheulkar, actor Nissim Ezekiel, poet J F R Jacob, former Governor of Punjab and Goa;