Syrian Jews (English Wikipedia)

The Aleppo Jewish dialect is described by Nevo, Moshe, "An Aleppan Judeo-Arabic Dialect", in Harel, Yaron (ed.), Aleppo Studies, vol. 2. 121 [Hebrew]; this is an abridgement of a PhD thesis by the same author at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The full thesis is available at The Arabic dialect of the Jews of Aleppo: phonology and morphology Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine. The Jewish dialect of Damascus is described by Matsa, Shay in his PhD thesis "The Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Damascus: Distinctive Phonological, Morphological and Lexical Features", also at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Shah, Khushbu (27 November 2015). "Rescuing the last Jews of Aleppo". CNN. Retrieved 28 November 2015.

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"بي بي سي تتجول في حارة اليهود في دمشق" [BBC roams around the Jewish quarter of Damascus]. YouTube (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 17 January 2020.

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"Our Founders - ICD Group". 2021-07-02. Retrieved 2023-12-28.

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"Syrian Chief Rabbi Makes Aliyah". IsraelNewsFaxx. Electronic World Communications, Inc. 20 October 1994. Retrieved 14 September 2010.

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"KURDISTAN - JewishEncyclopedia.com". jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 6 September 2014.

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Bard, Mitchell. "The Jews of Syria". The Jewish Virtual Library. American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. Retrieved 14 September 2010. Hamra is also known as Albert Hamra, Abraham Hamra, and Ibrahim al-Hamra (NY Daily News, 19 December 2017, 'Aliza was the daughter of Ibrahim al-Hamra, the former chief rabbi of Syria who moved to Israel')

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"President of Syria's Jewish community passed away; Damascus has 4 Jews". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 2022-09-22. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
Carl Hoffman, "My brother lives in Paris, my sister is in Mexico City", Jerusalem Post, 31 July 2008 Archived 24 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
Sam Sokol (2 September 2013). "Amid civil war, Syria's remaining Jews to celebrate High Holy Days". Jpost. Retrieved 28 October 2013.

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"Nine Months in Syria". Ninemonthsinsyria.blogspot.com. Retrieved 22 November 2011.

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"סדר עולת תמיד : (תפלת מנחה [וגם] ערבית) | הספרייה הלאומית".

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Chafets, Zev (October 14, 2007). "The Sy Empire". The New York Times. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
"Syrian Jews Find Haven In Brooklyn". The New York Times. 23 May 1992.
Chafets, Zev (14 October 2007). "The Sy Empire". The New York Times.
"The Paper Trail of Jerry Seinfeld Leads Back to Ellis Island and Beyond". The New York Times. April 24, 2009. Her family identified their nationality as Turkish when they emigrated to the United States in 1917.

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Seroussi, Edwin, "On the Beginnings of the Singing of Bakkashot in 19th Century Jerusalem" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Pe'amim 56 (1993), 106-124. [H]

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The text and a recording of the Damascus version may be found here Archived 2021-01-13 at the Wayback Machine.

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Although no scientific studies have been completed in regard to the Syrian-Jewish intermarriage rate, anecdotal evidence suggests that the Syrian community's current rate of intermarriage with non-Jews is between 2 and 3%. The National Jewish Population Survey study cited by Gordon and Horowitz Antony Gordon and Richard Horowitz. "Will Your Grandchildren Be Jewish". Retrieved 19 February 2008. gives intermarriage rates for Centrist and Hasidic Jews of 3% for those between the ages of 18 and 39 and 6% overall, as compared with 32% for Conservative Jews, 46% for Reform Jews and 49% for secular Jews. Gordon and Horowitz suggest that the main reason for the difference is the growing commitment to Jewish Day School education: "The combination of Jewish commitment and having experienced a complete K-12 Orthodox Jewish Day School education results in an intermarriage rate of not greater than 3%." This suggests that Jewish day schools, rather than the edict, are the decisive factor in discouraging intermarriage.

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Dean-Olmstead, Evelyn (2009). "Arabic and Syrian Jewish Identities in Mexico City, A Century after Migration". Syrian Studies Association Bulletin. 15 (1). Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Archived from the original on 18 October 2013.

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Friedman, Matti. "A different history of displacement and loss". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2020-08-25.

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"Damascus – Amid Civil War, Syria's Remaining Jews To Celebrate High Holy Days". Vos Iz Neias?. 2 September 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2013.

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Seroussi, Edwin, "On the Beginnings of the Singing of Bakkashot in 19th Century Jerusalem" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Pe'amim 56 (1993), 106-124. [H]
Official website Archived 2019-02-17 at the Wayback Machine (in Hebrew).
Carl Hoffman, "My brother lives in Paris, my sister is in Mexico City", Jerusalem Post, 31 July 2008 Archived 24 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
Dean-Olmstead, Evelyn (2009). "Arabic and Syrian Jewish Identities in Mexico City, A Century after Migration". Syrian Studies Association Bulletin. 15 (1). Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Archived from the original on 18 October 2013.
The Aleppo Jewish dialect is described by Nevo, Moshe, "An Aleppan Judeo-Arabic Dialect", in Harel, Yaron (ed.), Aleppo Studies, vol. 2. 121 [Hebrew]; this is an abridgement of a PhD thesis by the same author at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The full thesis is available at The Arabic dialect of the Jews of Aleppo: phonology and morphology Archived 2021-04-15 at the Wayback Machine. The Jewish dialect of Damascus is described by Matsa, Shay in his PhD thesis "The Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Damascus: Distinctive Phonological, Morphological and Lexical Features", also at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The text and a recording of the Damascus version may be found here Archived 2021-01-13 at the Wayback Machine.

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No distinction was made between beth with or without dagesh, but occasionally, the sound of both letters slipped into [β] (bilabial v): Katz 1981, 1.1.1. Katz, Ketsi'ah (1981), "Masoret ha-lashon ha-'Ibrit shel Yehude Aram-Tsoba (Ḥalab) bi-qri'at ha-Miqra ve-ha-Mishnah (The Hebrew Language Tradition of the Jews of Aleppo in the Reading of the Bible and Mishnah)", ʻEdah Ṿe-Lashon, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, ISSN 0333-5143
Katz 1981, 1.8.2. Katz, Ketsi'ah (1981), "Masoret ha-lashon ha-'Ibrit shel Yehude Aram-Tsoba (Ḥalab) bi-qri'at ha-Miqra ve-ha-Mishnah (The Hebrew Language Tradition of the Jews of Aleppo in the Reading of the Bible and Mishnah)", ʻEdah Ṿe-Lashon, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, ISSN 0333-5143
Katz 1981, 1.11.2. Katz, Ketsi'ah (1981), "Masoret ha-lashon ha-'Ibrit shel Yehude Aram-Tsoba (Ḥalab) bi-qri'at ha-Miqra ve-ha-Mishnah (The Hebrew Language Tradition of the Jews of Aleppo in the Reading of the Bible and Mishnah)", ʻEdah Ṿe-Lashon, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, ISSN 0333-5143
The [w] pronunciation occurred very occasionally but was regarded as a mistake made under the influence of Arabic: Katz 1981, 1.1.4 note 2. It is just possible that it was the older pronunciation that was "corrected" to [v] under the influence of Turkish Sephardim. Katz, Ketsi'ah (1981), "Masoret ha-lashon ha-'Ibrit shel Yehude Aram-Tsoba (Ḥalab) bi-qri'at ha-Miqra ve-ha-Mishnah (The Hebrew Language Tradition of the Jews of Aleppo in the Reading of the Bible and Mishnah)", ʻEdah Ṿe-Lashon, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, ISSN 0333-5143
Katz 1981, 1.10.2. Katz, Ketsi'ah (1981), "Masoret ha-lashon ha-'Ibrit shel Yehude Aram-Tsoba (Ḥalab) bi-qri'at ha-Miqra ve-ha-Mishnah (The Hebrew Language Tradition of the Jews of Aleppo in the Reading of the Bible and Mishnah)", ʻEdah Ṿe-Lashon, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, ISSN 0333-5143
Katz 1981, 1.6.1. Katz, Ketsi'ah (1981), "Masoret ha-lashon ha-'Ibrit shel Yehude Aram-Tsoba (Ḥalab) bi-qri'at ha-Miqra ve-ha-Mishnah (The Hebrew Language Tradition of the Jews of Aleppo in the Reading of the Bible and Mishnah)", ʻEdah Ṿe-Lashon, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, ISSN 0333-5143
Katz 1981, 1.10.1. Katz, Ketsi'ah (1981), "Masoret ha-lashon ha-'Ibrit shel Yehude Aram-Tsoba (Ḥalab) bi-qri'at ha-Miqra ve-ha-Mishnah (The Hebrew Language Tradition of the Jews of Aleppo in the Reading of the Bible and Mishnah)", ʻEdah Ṿe-Lashon, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, ISSN 0333-5143
Katz 1981, 1.6.2. Katz, Ketsi'ah (1981), "Masoret ha-lashon ha-'Ibrit shel Yehude Aram-Tsoba (Ḥalab) bi-qri'at ha-Miqra ve-ha-Mishnah (The Hebrew Language Tradition of the Jews of Aleppo in the Reading of the Bible and Mishnah)", ʻEdah Ṿe-Lashon, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, ISSN 0333-5143
The pronunciation of qof as aleph, while regarded as a mistake, was diagnostic of Syrian identity. Care was taken to avoid it since Sephardic rabbis from Turkey queried why Aleppans said "adosh, adosh, adosh": Katz 1981, 1.9.1. note 11. Very occasionally, an aleph meant to be a glottal stop is hypercorrected to [q]: Katz 1981, 1.11.3.2. Katz, Ketsi'ah (1981), "Masoret ha-lashon ha-'Ibrit shel Yehude Aram-Tsoba (Ḥalab) bi-qri'at ha-Miqra ve-ha-Mishnah (The Hebrew Language Tradition of the Jews of Aleppo in the Reading of the Bible and Mishnah)", ʻEdah Ṿe-Lashon, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, ISSN 0333-5143 Katz, Ketsi'ah (1981), "Masoret ha-lashon ha-'Ibrit shel Yehude Aram-Tsoba (Ḥalab) bi-qri'at ha-Miqra ve-ha-Mishnah (The Hebrew Language Tradition of the Jews of Aleppo in the Reading of the Bible and Mishnah)", ʻEdah Ṿe-Lashon, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, ISSN 0333-5143
Katz 1981, 1.2.2. Katz, Ketsi'ah (1981), "Masoret ha-lashon ha-'Ibrit shel Yehude Aram-Tsoba (Ḥalab) bi-qri'at ha-Miqra ve-ha-Mishnah (The Hebrew Language Tradition of the Jews of Aleppo in the Reading of the Bible and Mishnah)", ʻEdah Ṿe-Lashon, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, ISSN 0333-5143
Katz 1981, 6.1. Katz, Ketsi'ah (1981), "Masoret ha-lashon ha-'Ibrit shel Yehude Aram-Tsoba (Ḥalab) bi-qri'at ha-Miqra ve-ha-Mishnah (The Hebrew Language Tradition of the Jews of Aleppo in the Reading of the Bible and Mishnah)", ʻEdah Ṿe-Lashon, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, ISSN 0333-5143
Katz 1981, 6.4.2. Katz, Ketsi'ah (1981), "Masoret ha-lashon ha-'Ibrit shel Yehude Aram-Tsoba (Ḥalab) bi-qri'at ha-Miqra ve-ha-Mishnah (The Hebrew Language Tradition of the Jews of Aleppo in the Reading of the Bible and Mishnah)", ʻEdah Ṿe-Lashon, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, ISSN 0333-5143

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Entous, Adam (2014-12-01). "A Brief History of the Syrian Jewish Community". The Wall Street Journal. wsj.com. Retrieved 2015-09-15. By 2008, when Mr. Marcus visited Syria to research a book on the Jewish community there, the number of Jews had shrunk to between 60 and 70 in Damascus. Another six Jews remained in Aleppo, he said. "You could say it was a community on the way to extinction," he said. "The internal war in Syria has just expedited that process." Around 17 Jews remain in Damascus today, according to community leaders.

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"بي بي سي تتجول في حارة اليهود في دمشق" [BBC roams around the Jewish quarter of Damascus]. YouTube (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 17 January 2020.