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Syrian Jews derive their origin from two groups: from the Jews who inhabited the region of today's Syria from ancient times (known as Musta'arabi Jews), and sometimes classified as Mizrahi Jews (Mizrahi is a generic term for the Jews with an extended history in Western Asia or North Africa); and from the Sephardi Jews (referring to Jews with an ...
In 1957, there were only 5,300 Jews left in Syria, out of an original population of 15,000 in 1947. In 1968, it was estimated that there were 4,000 Jews still in Syria. [60] Pupils at the Maimonides school in Damascus. This photograph was taken shortly before the exodus of the remaining Syrian Jews in 1992.
Rabbi Yihya Yitzhak HaLevi. Rabbi Shlomo Korah, chief rabbi of Bnei Brak. Rabbi Azarya Basis, chief rabbi of Rosh HaAyin. Rabbi Shimon Baadani, leading Sephardi rabbi and rosh kollel in Israel. Rabbi Avraham Al-Naddaf, one of the leaders of Yemenite Jews in Jerusalem and Israel. Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak.
Josephine Abady. Abraham ben Mazhir. Shafiq Ades. Thomas Adès. David Adjmi. Joey Allaham. Albert Antébi. Richard Anthony (singer)
Mizrahi Jews (Hebrew: יהודי המִזְרָח), also known as Mizrahim (מִזְרָחִים) or Mizrachi (מִזְרָחִי) and alternatively referred to as Oriental Jews or Edot HaMizrach (עֲדוֹת־הַמִּזְרָח, lit.'Communities of the East'), [ 1 ] are terms used in Israeli discourse to refer to a grouping of Jewish ...
Cohen was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to a family of Mizrahi Jews.His father had immigrated from Aleppo in the Ottoman Empire in 1914. Deeply committed to Judaism, Cohen had planned in his youth to become a rabbi with guidance from Moise Ventura [] (1893–1978), Alexandria's Chief Rabbi, [4] but the city's yeshiva soon closed down, [5] prompting him to pursue higher education at Cairo University.
Syriac Christianity (Syriac: ܡܫܝܚܝܘܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ, Mšiḥoyuṯo Suryoyto or Mšiḥāyūṯā Suryāytā) is a branch of Eastern Christianity of which formative theological writings and traditional liturgies are expressed in the Classical Syriac language, a variation of the old Aramaic language. [1][2][3] In a wider sense, the term ...
The overwhelming majority of Syrian immigrants to the U.S. from 1880 to 1960 were Christian, a minority were Jewish, whereas Muslim Syrians arrived in the United States chiefly after 1965. [12] According to the 2016 American Community Survey 1-year estimates, there were 187,331 Americans who claimed Syrian ancestry, about 12% of the Arab ...