Jewish Syrian history

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Chapters: Tribe of Naphtali, Tribe of Manasseh, Syrian Jews, History of the Jews in Syria, Aleppo Codex, Musta'arabi Jews, Baqashot, Damascus affair, Jobar, Pizmonim, Weekly Maqam, Central Synagogue of Aleppo, Tedef, Dura-Europos synagogue, Alliance Israélite Universelle, Death of a Monk, Ozar Hatorah, 1947 Aleppo pogrom, Dura-Europos church, Maktab Anbar. Excerpt: Syrian Jews (Arabic: ¿) are Jews who inhabit the region of the modern state of Syria, and their descendants born outside Syria. 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, a generic term for the Jews with an extended history in the Middle East or North Africa); and from the Sephardi Jews (referring to Jews with an extended history in the Iberian Peninsula, i.e. Spain and Portugal) who fled to Syria after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain (1492 CE). There were large communities in Aleppo and Damascus for centuries, and a smaller community in Qamishli on the Turkish border near Nusaybin. In the first half of the 20th century a large percentage of Syrian Jews emigrated to the U.S., Central and South America and Israel. Most of the remaining Jews left in the 28 years following 1973, due in part to the efforts of Judith Feld Carr, who claims to have helped some 3,228 Jews emigrate; emigration was officially allowed in 1992. Today there are about 25 Jews in Syria, all of them living in Damascus. The largest Syrian Jewish community is located in Brooklyn, New York and is estimated at 75,000 strong. There are smaller communities elsewhere in the United States and in Latin America. Jewish pupils in the Maimonides school in ¿Amarah al Juwwaniyah, in the historic Maison Lisbona in Damascus. The photo was taken shortly before the exodus of most of the remaining Syrian Jewish community in 1992There have been Jews in Syria since ancient times: according to legend, since the time of King David, and certainly since early Roman times. Jews from this ancient community were known as Musta'arabim (Arabized Jews) to themselves, or Moriscos to the Sephardim. Many Sephardim arrived following the expulsion from Spain in 1492, and quickly took a leading position in the community. Still later, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, some