1947 anti-Jewish riots in Aleppo

yes Attack on Syrian Jews in Aleppo, Syria Aleppo, Syria December 1947 Allepo1947.jpg Ruins of the Central Synagogue of Aleppo after it was burned during the 1947 riots in Aleppo Pogrom ~75 Jews killedSeveral hundred wounded~5000 fled Arab Syrians, Syrian government forces Antisemitism, Anti-zionism The 1947 anti-Jewish riots in Aleppo were a mob attack on Syrian Jews in Aleppo, Syria in December 1947, following the United Nations vote in favour of partitioning British Palestine. The attack was part of an anti-Jewish wave of unrest across the Middle East and North Africa at the time of the 1948 Palestine war. Yaron Harel describes extensive looting and property damage, but writes that soldiers and police officers "prevented the mob from injuring and murdering Jews."Harel Yaron 2010 Aleppo Riots (1947) https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/EJIO/SIM-0001240.xml 2024-10-22 Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Online Brill en 10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_sim_0001240 subscription According to Jacob Freid, the riots resulted in some 75 Jews murdered and several hundred wounded. In the aftermath of the riots, half the city's Jewish population fled the city. History Syria gained independence from France in April 1946. The Haganah's illegal immigration operative Akiva Feinstein wrote in 1947 that the new Syrian government then commenced persecuting the Jewish minority, that all Jewish clerks working for the French bureaucracy were fired, and the government tried to stifle Jewish businesses. At the time of the United Nations vote on November 29, 1947, the Jewish community in Aleppo numbered around 10,000 and went back around two thousand years. On November 30th the Syrian government closed the city and ordered all inhabitants to stay in their homes, which prevented violence. But on December 1st, two days after the vote in favour of the partition of Palestine, the government abetted and organised Aleppo's Arab inhabitants to attack the city's Jewish population.Itamar Leṿin Locked doors: the seizure of Jewish property in Arab countries https://books.google.com/books?id=pxgonnuybEgC&pg=PA167 18 October 2010 2001 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-275-97134-2 167–171Hayim Tawil Bernard Schneider Crown of Aleppo: The Mystery of the Oldest Hebrew Bible Codex https://books.google.com/books?id=Rkjl28v4ZdAC&pg=PA163 18 October 2010 December 2009 Jewish Publication Society 978-0-8276-0895-5 163dev 2007-11-27 The Pogrom of Aleppo https://www.morasha.com.br/en/diaspora-communities/the-Aleppo-pogrom.html 2025-08-12 Morashá en The exact number of those killed remains unknown, but estimates are put at around 75, with several hundred wounded.Jacob Freid Jews in the modern world https://books.google.com/books?id=k2kKAQAAIAAJ 18 October 2010 1962 Twayne Publishers 68Daniel Pipes, Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990) p. 57, records 75 victims of the Aleppo massacre. Ten synagogues, five schools, an orphanage and a youth club, along with several Jewish shops and 150 houses were set ablaze and destroyed.Benny Morris 1948: a history of the first Arab-Israeli war https://books.google.com/books?id=J5jtAAAAMAAJ 18 October 2010 2008 Yale University Press 412 9780300126969 Damaged property was estimated to be valued at US$2.5m.Andrew G. Bostom The legacy of Islamic antisemitism: from sacred texts to solemn history https://books.google.com/books?id=yIkQAQAAIAAJ 18 October 2010 2008 Prometheus Books 159 9781591025542 W. A. Veenhoven Case Studies on Human Rights And Fundamental Freedoms https://books.google.com/books?id=AN6dSGr3kWcC&pg=PA90 18 October 2010 February 1977 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 978-90-247-1957-0 90 During the riots the Aleppo Codex, an important medieval manuscript of the Torah, was lost and feared destroyed. The book reappeared (with 40% of pages missing) in Israel in 1958.Ronen Bergman Ronen Bergman A High Holy Whodunit https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/magazine/the-aleppo-codex-mystery.html?pagewanted=all The New York Times July 25, 2012 2012-07-26 Following the attack, the Jewish community went into a steep decline. Wealthy Jews escaped the day after the riots and many more fled in small groups in subsequent months.Colin Shindler A history of modern Israel https://archive.org/details/historyofmoderni00shin registration 18 October 2010 2008 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-61538-9 63 Their property was forfeited and on December 22 the Syrian Government enacted a law forbidding Jews from selling their property. As of 2012, no Jews live in Aleppo.https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-different-history-of-displacement-and-loss/ A Different History of Displacement and Loss: There is More Than one way to look at the Commemoration of 1948′s Palestinian Defeat and Dispersion Friedman Matti May 15, 2012 The Times of Israel 15 May 2014 Destruction of the Great Synagogue In the early hours of December 1st Syrian Soldiers were sent to the Central Synagogue of Aleppo ostensibly to protect but in reality they were there only for the Syrian government to keep up appearances. Later that day, the local Jewish community leaders Rahmo Nehmad and Siahu Shamah met with Aleppo's mayor in which he promised to protect the Jews, though Shamah doubted that the mayor was being honest. In the early afternoon a crowd of Arabs gathered in front of the Synagogue chanting "Palestine is our land and the Jews are our dogs" with the local authorities doing nothing in response. In the late afternoon the crowd of Arabs attacked with many of the soldiers sent to guard the synagogue joining the mob. The mob took 40 Torah scrolls and 7 Hekhalot, tore them to pieces and then burned them in a bonfire. Nearly 2 thousand pairs of tefillin where also added to the fire. Firefighters soon arrived but instead of fighting the fire they threw kerosene and diesel onto the fire, only growing it. The crowd then dispersed to attack and burn Jewish homes. Only in the morning did the Syrian government put an end to the rioting. 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