Syrian Jew
|
|
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 175,000 to 200,000 (est.) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Israel
|
80,000 |
 United States
|
75,000 |
 Syria
|
9 |
 Brazil
|
7,000 |
 Mexico
|
~16,000 |
 Panama
|
10,000 |
| Languages | |
| Hebrew, Arabic, French, English | |
| Religion | |
| Orthodox Judaism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Mizrahi Jews, Sephardi Jews, other Jewish groups, other Syrian people, other Levantines | |
 |
|
| Visual arts | |
|---|---|
| Literature | |
| Made by Jews | |
| Yiddish | Ladino |
| Judeo-Arabic | Hebrew |
| Israeli | English and American |
| Philosophy | |
| Performance arts | |
| Music | Dance |
| Cuisine | |
| Israeli | Sephardi |
| Ashkenazi | Mizrahi |
| Other aspects | |
| Humour | Languages |
| Symbols | Clothing |
Syrian Jews (Hebrew: יהודי סוריה Yehudey Surya, Arabic: الْيَهُود السُّورِيُّون al-Yahūd as-Sūriyyūn, colloquially called SYs /ˈɛswaɪz/ in the United States) are Jews who lived in 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 Alhambra Decree forced the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
There were large communities in Aleppo ("Halabi Jews", Aleppo is Halab in Arabic) and Damascus ("Shami Jews") 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 immigrated to the U.S., Latin America and Israel. Most of the remaining Jews left in the 28 years following 1973, due in part to the efforts of Judy Feld Carr, who claims to have helped some 3,228 Jews emigrate; emigration was officially allowed in 1992. 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.
...
Wikipedia