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 .
The Iraqi Jews are the least amount in quantity yet identify the most strongly with Jewish culture .