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Aleppo Jewish Surnames Index

Filed Under Indexing Projects, Surnames, Syria سوريا By Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch on November 2, 2023

The slow decline of the Aleppo Jewish community began during the 19th century following the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 and was accelerated following the turmoil of World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in […]

Surname list of the Jews of Damascus: 2021 update

Filed Under Syria سوريا By Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch on December 21, 2021

Like many other Jewish communities in the Levant, that of Damascus declined from a thriving community with 12,000 members in 1943 to only a handful by 2010. Its members largely left for Mandatory Palestine, and later to the State of […]

A Consolidated Index of Jewish Surnames in 20th Century Damascus

Filed Under Crowdsourcing, Mediterranean, Surnames, Syria سوريا By Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch on June 5, 2020

Like many other Jewish communities in the Levant, the Jewish community of Damascus dwindled from a thriving community with 12,000 members in 1943 until only a handful remained by 2010. Its members largely left for Mandatory Palestine and later to […]

Jewish Emigration from Aleppo In the 19th and 20th Centuries

Filed Under Mediterranean, Mizrachim, Syria سوريا By Avraham Sfadia on March 22, 2020

    Jews began to settle in Aleppo at the time of the Babylonian Diaspora in 536–538 BCE and continued to do so until the creation of the modern State of Israel. The trade opportunities that Aleppo’s location offered made it […]

Spanish-Jewish `Nobility’ of Aleppo, Syria

Filed Under España, Mediterranean, Portugal, Syria سوريا, Uncategorized By Anne de Sola-Cardoza on August 31, 2016

As recently as 1992, more than 4,000 Jews were being held against their will in Syria, unable to leave and kept under watch, branded as “Mussawi,” followers of Moses. At that time, 50,000 Jews from Syria lived in Brooklyn’s Flatbush […]

Given Names of the Jewish Women of Damascus – 1583-1909

Filed Under Mediterranean, Mizrachim, Surnames, Syria سوريا By Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch on May 6, 2016

Among the many challenges one faces in Jewish genealogical research is the paucity of sources relating to female given names and surnames. This was clearly illustrated at the lecture of Dr. Lea Haber–Gedalia in the 2015 IAJGS Annual Conference in Jerusalem [1]. There are […]

Successful Quest for Ancestors in Aleppo and Baghdad and for Kinsmen in Calcutta

Filed Under Iraq اَلْعِرَاق, Syria سوريا By Lucien Gubbay on April 1, 2009

After more than 20 years of sporadic research carried out with the help of others, I can now report the success of my quest to trace the mutual relationships of the members of the Gubbay family of Aleppo, to identify […]

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