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 . 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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Khushbu Shah, « Rescuing the last Jews of Aleppo », CNN, (lire en ligne, consulté le )
Mitchell Bard, « The Jews of Syria », sur The Jewish Virtual Library, American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (consulté le ) : « 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') »
« Syrian Jews Find Haven In Brooklyn », The New York Times, (lire en ligne)
Zev Chafets, « The Sy Empire », The New York Times, (lire en ligne)
« The Paper Trail of Jerry Seinfeld Leads Back to Ellis Island and Beyond », The New York Times, (lire en ligne) Her family identified their nationality as Turkish when they emigrated to the United States in 1917.
The text and a recording of the Damascus version may be found here .
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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 » (consulté le ) 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.
Adam Entous, « A Brief History of the Syrian Jewish Community », The Wall Street Journal, wsj.com, (consulté le ) : « 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. »
