text: Mizrahi ( or eastern ) Jews are from West Asia , Central Asia , and North Africa , including black-eyed , high-cheekboned Yemenite Jews ; Jews from the mountains of Kurdistan and the dusty plateaus of Bukhara ; and Iraqi Jews , whose community existed from the days of the Babylonian Captivity in the sixth century b.c. until modern times .
  
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  Mizrahi Jews are from South Asia and does not include Yemenite Jews .