1947 Aleppo pogrom

The 1947 Aleppo pogrom refers to an attack against Aleppo's Jews in December 1947, following the United Nations vote in favor of partitioning Palestine. The attack, a part of anti-Jewish wave of unrest across Middle East and North Africa, resulted in between 8 to 75 Jews killed and several hundred wounded.[1] In the aftermath of the pogrom, half the city's Jewish population had abandoned the city.[2]

History

Jewish exodus from Arab countries 1947-1972
Main articles

Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries
1948 Arab-Israeli War
Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen)
Operation Ezra and Nehemiah
Operation Yakhin
1956 Expulsion of Egyptian Jews

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Background
Nazi relations with the Arab world  · Farhud  · Tripoli (1945)  · Cairo (1945)  · Immigration during and after World War II
Israeli Declaration of Independence  · Suez Crisis · Algerian War  · Six Day War
Key incidents
Aleppo (Syria) · Aden (Yemen) · Oujda and Jerada (Morocco) · Tripoli (Libya) · Baghdad (Iraq)
Arbitration
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Resettlement
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Related topics
Jewish history · Jewish diaspora · History under Muslim rule
Mizrahi Jews · Sephardi Jews · Arab Jews

The Jews of Aleppo had suffered a previous pogroms in 1853 and 1875.[3] After the United Nations vote on November 29, 1947, in favor of the partition of Palestine, the Arab inhabitants of Aleppo rioted against the town's Jewish population,[4][5] which at the time numbered around 10,000. While the exact number of those killed remains unknown, estimates of those killed range from 8 to 75. Several hundred were wounded.[1][4][6] Ten synagogues, five schools, an orphanage and a youth club, Jewish shops and 150 houses were set ablaze and destroyed.[7] Damaged property was estimated to be valued at $2.5m.[8][9] The community subsequently went into decline and soon after, half the city's Jewish population had left.[2] During the pogrom the Crown of Aleppo was damaged and lost.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Jacob Freid (1962). Jews in the modern world. Twayne Publishers. p. 68. http://books.google.com/books?id=k2kKAQAAIAAJ. Retrieved 18 October 2010. 
  2. ^ a b Colin Shindler (2008). A history of modern Israel. Cambridge University Press. p. 63. ISBN 9780521615389. http://books.google.com/books?id=u0sD-8r7I5QC&pg=PA63. Retrieved 18 October 2010. 
  3. ^ David Patterson (31 October 2010). A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad. Cambridge University Press. p. 56. ISBN 9780521132619. http://books.google.com/books?id=lMLmK-fmf8kC&pg=PA56. Retrieved 18 October 2010. 
  4. ^ a b c Hayim Tawil; Bernard Schneider (December 2009). Crown of Aleppo: The Mystery of the Oldest Hebrew Bible Codex. Jewish Publication Society. p. 163. ISBN 9780827608955. http://books.google.com/books?id=Rkjl28v4ZdAC&pg=PA163. Retrieved 18 October 2010. 
  5. ^ Itamar Leṿin (2001). Locked doors: the seizure of Jewish property in Arab countries. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 167. ISBN 9780275971342. http://books.google.com/books?id=pxgonnuybEgC&pg=PA167. Retrieved 18 October 2010. 
  6. ^ Daniel Pipes, Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990) p. 57, records 75 victims of the Aleppo massacre.
  7. ^ Benny Morris (2008). 1948: a history of the first Arab-Israeli war. Yale University Press. p. 412. http://books.google.com/books?id=J5jtAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 18 October 2010. 
  8. ^ Andrew G. Bostom (2008). The legacy of Islamic antisemitism: from sacred texts to solemn history. Prometheus Books. p. 159. http://books.google.com/books?id=yIkQAQAAIAAJ. Retrieved 18 October 2010. 
  9. ^ W. A. Veenhoven (February 1977). Case Studies on Human Rights And Fundamental Freedoms. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 90. ISBN 9789024719570. http://books.google.com/books?id=AN6dSGr3kWcC&pg=PA90. Retrieved 18 October 2010. 
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