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A Global Community: The Jews from Aleppo, Syria

A Global Community: The Jews from Aleppo, Syria

Zenner, Walter P.

Hardcover

Series: Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology

JudaismAnthropologyMythology & Folklore

ISBN10: 0814327915
ISBN13: 9780814327913
Publisher: Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and A
Published: May 1 2000
Pages: 238
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Jews from Aleppo, Syria, and their descendants compose a remarkable but little-known community that has spread throughout the world during the past two centuries, adapting to myriad social settings from Kobe to Buenos Aires. A Global Community is the first comprehensive scholarly interpretation of the historical experience of this unusual community in Syria and in the other places to which Aleppan Jewry have immigrated. Walter P. Zenner points to the social, economic, and cultural links that the various Syrian Jewish communities have made for the unique persistence of community throughout the diaspora. He places special emphasis in the communities in Israel and the United States but also studies the communities in England and Latin America. He utilizes rabbinical responsas, travelers' writings, secondary sources, interviews, and oral histories to provide a unique look into this Middle Eastern Jewish community for those interested in Ashkenazic as well as Sephardic Judaism.

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