A later influx of Polish and German Jews settled in Tanzania between the 1930s and the 1950s, fleeing persecution in Nazi Europe.
The Jewish community of Arusha was founded by Yemenite Jews who had crossed the Gulf of Aden in the 1880s, passing through Ethiopia and Kenya before settling in Tanzania.
During the 1930s, around 5,000 Polish Jews fleeing Nazi persecution joined the Arusha Jewish community.
Political and economic instability following Tanzania's independence in 1961 motivated many Tanzanian Jews to leave the country.
[2] In 2019, Kehillat Beth Israel of Ottawa donated a Sefer Torah to the Jewish community of Arusha.