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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = Seketese Jews
| native_name      = <sub>Jeyws secéteça ([[Seketese language|Seketese]]) </sub><br /><sub>{{Script/Hebrew|יהודים סאקאטן}} ({{wp|Hebrew language|Hebrew}})</sub>
| population       = {{flagicon image|Flag of Seketan.svg}} [[Seketan]] '''53,775 (as of 2021)'''
| region1          = {{flagicon image|Flag of Gjenor.svg}} [[Gjenor]]
| pop1             = '''23,442'''
| region2          = {{flagicon image|Flag of Bynan.svg}} [[Bynan]]
| pop2             = '''14,235'''
| region3          = [[Ellinesa]]
| pop3             = '''8,674'''
| region3          = {{flagicon image|Flag of Wilskland.png}} [[Wilskland]]
| pop3             = '''3,057'''
| langs            = [[Seketese language|Seketese]]{{·}} [[Wilsk Language|Wilsk]] (in Wilskland){{·}} {{wp|Hebrew language|Hebrew}} (as a liturgical language, some as mother tongue){{·}} [[Nelvojish Language|Nelvojish]] (by some as mother tongue but mostly liturgical){{·}} {{wp|French Language|French}} (mostly amoungst Ashkenazi Jews){{·}} {{wp|Yiddish language|Yiddish}} (in some small communities)
| rels             = Mostly [[Judaism]] and [[Jewish secularism]]
| related          = [[History of Jews in Alquiya|Alquiyan Jews]], [[History of Jews in Trjebia|Trjebian Jews]], [[History of Jews in New Svealand|New Svealander Jews]]
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The [[history of the Jews in Seketan]] primarily begins in the 10th century, after the [[Edict of Avro|expulsion of jews from Alquiya]] to Seketan. There is evidence of Jews living along the [[Martinn Coast]] area, though these were thought to be mostly traders who would only stay temporarily. The [[Monarch of Seketan|King of Seketan]], partially on the advice of the {{wp|Catholic Church|church}}, forbade them from living in the area around Lake Seketan, thus making the oldest Jewish communities in Seketan centred in the farmlands of Bynan. The first synagogue opened in 1044 in [[Zynybec]], and the population remained very small for the next few hundred years. During the 1920s and 30s, many {{wp|France|French Jews}} immigrated to Seketan to flee the rising {{wp|Nazi Germany}}, growing the Jewish population to around 30,000 and making Conelibek the new centre of Judaism in Seketan.

Today, Seketese Jews are split into the [[Nelvojish Jews|Nelvojish]] or Nelbec Jews, and {{wp|Ashkenazi Jews}} who immigrated from France and {{wp|Eastern Europe}}. Nelvojish are predominantly in Bynan, around the cities of Zynybec, Joghen, and Fevilla, with Zynybec being considered the centre of the community. Ashkenazi Seketese are more prominent in Seketans largest cities, like Conelibek, Fyedor, and Porta.
==Demographics==
{{Pie chart
|thumb = right
|caption = Breakdown of Jewish background in Seketan
|label1 = {{wp|Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi}}
|value1 = 60.3
|color1 = Green
|label2 = [[Nelvojish Jews|Nelvojish]]
|value2 = 36.5
|color2 = Blue
|label3 = {{wp|Sephardic Jews|Sephardic}}
|value3 = 2.2
|color3 = Gold
|label4 = Other
|value4 = 1.4
|color4 = Grey
}}
For most of Seketese Jewish history, Nelvojish Jews were the only group allowed to be in Seketan, and where almost entirely confined to the province of Bynan. These communities were concentrated in cities as farmland was not granted to them on the basis of their background, and thus inland towns like Zynybec and Joghen contained some of the first Jewish communities. The population didn't grow much during the next 700 years until the proclamation of the Nelbec Empire and the start of industrialization in Seketan. The new Empire allowed Jews to finally live around Lake Seketan, and many were pushed out of their small communities to make way for Seketese workers in the new factories and started the Nelvojish communities in cities like Fevilla and Loria. Today These two provinces, plus an incredibly small community in Giorgi Alesk, are considered the homeland of the Nelvojish.

In the 1930s, the looming Nazi government in Germany caused many Jews in France and, to a lesser extent, Eastern Europe to move to Seketan. Without any restrictions as to where they could move to in Seketan, most immigrants settled in large cities like Conelibek and Porta. Most of these new immigrants spoke French, contributing to the already ongoing [[Francophilia in Seketan|Francophilia]] in major cities like Conelibek. Today, Ashkenazi Jews in Seketan are most concentrated in Gjenor and Ellinesa.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! colspan=2; rowspan=2|Province
! rowspan=2|Total Jewish Pop.
! Colspan=2|Ashkenazi
! colspan=2|Nelvojish
! colspan=2|Other
|-
! Pop.
! #
! Pop.
! #
! Pop.
! #
|-
| [[File:Flag of Gjenor.svg|25px|border]] || [[Gjenor]] || 23,442 || 18,067 || 77.1% || 4,764 || 20.3% || 611 || 2.6%
|-
| [[File:Flag of Bynan.svg|25px|border]] || [[Bynan]] || 14,235 || 1,604 || 11.3% || 12,384 || 87.0% || 247 || 1.7%
|-
| [[File:Flag of Ellinesa.svg|25px|border]] || [[Ellinesa]] || 8,674 || 2,043 || 92.1% || 344 || 4.0% || 338 || 3.9%
|-
| [[File:Flag of Wilskland.png|25px|border]] || [[Wilskland]] || 3,054 || 2,043 || 66.9% || 801 || 26.2% || 210 || 6.9%
|-
| [[File:Flag of Fjeska.svg|25px|border]] || [[Fjeska]] || 2,218 || 1,103 || 49.7% || 904 || 40.8% || 211 || 9.5%
|-
| [[File:Flag of Nelderjen.png|25px|border]] || [[Nelderjen]] || 2,053 || 1,375 || 66.0% || 466 || 22.7% || 233 || 11.3%
|-
| [[File:Flag of Giorgi-Alesk.svg|25px|border]] || [[Giorgi-Alesk]] || 99 || 41 || 41.4% || 57 || 57.6% || 1 || 1.0%
|-
! colspan=2| Total
! 53,676
! 32,163
! 59.9%
! 19,720
! 36.7%
! 1,851
! 3.4%
|}
== Anti-Semetism in Seketan==
While historically more tolerant than their Alquiyan neighbours to the south, Seketese governments and people have historically persecuted and disenfranchised Jews living in the country.
===Societe Conelibek conspiracy===
{{Seealso|Société Conelibek}}
Most contemporary historians give partial credit to French Jews immigrating to Seketan for the rise of Francophilia during the 1920s, which led to the establishment of many secret societies and organizations like the [[Société Conelibek]]. Over time, the Société gained major power within Conelibek, and therefore Seketese, politics, even for a brief time [[Free Conelibek|controlling the city]] during the [[Seketese Civil War]]. This gave rise to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that these new Jewish immigrants created Société Conelibek to control Seketese politics from the background. Société Conelibek used {{wp|French Language|French}} as its working language and used french symbols like the {{wp|Fleur-de-lis}}, which supporters of this theory used as evidence that French Jews controlled it.

Evidence against this conspiracy however is that the Société required members to be of "good Christian morals" until 1957 and that during the height of their informal control of Conelibek municipal politics from 1940-1965, the Société blacklisted many prominent Jewish reformists in their collaboration with the authoritarian [[Kjeforate Party]].