1947 Aleppo pogrom

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The 1947 Aleppo pogrom refers to an attack against Jews in Aleppo, Syria 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 some 75 Jews murdered and several hundred wounded.[1] In the aftermath of the pogrom, half the city's Jewish population fled the city.[2]

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The Jews of Aleppo had suffered previous pogroms in 1853 and 1875.[3]

After the United Nations vote on November 29, 1947, in favor of the partition of Palestine, Arab inhabitants of Aleppo attacked the city's Jewish population,[4][5] which at the time numbered around 10,000.

Ten synagogues, five schools, an orphanage and a youth club, along with various Jewish shops and 150 houses were set ablaze and destroyed.[6] Damaged property was estimated to be valued at US$2.5m.[7][8] During the pogrom the Aleppo Codex, an important medieval manuscript of the Torah was lost and feared destroyed. The book reappeared (with pages missing) in Israel in 1958.

While the exact number of those killed remains unknown, estimates of those killed are put at around 75, with several hundred Jews wounded.[1][4][9] Following the attack, the Jewish community went into decline and soon after half the city's Jewish population had left the city.[2]

Within years after the pogroms, most Jews left Aleppo, a large majority of them to Israel. Currently (as of 2012), no Jews live in Aleppo.[10]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jacob Freid (1962). Jews in the modern world. Twayne Publishers. p. 68. Retrieved 18 October 2010. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Colin Shindler (2008). A history of modern Israel. Cambridge University Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-521-61538-9. 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 978-0-521-13261-9. Retrieved 18 October 2010. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hayim Tawil; Bernard Schneider (December 2009). Crown of Aleppo: The Mystery of the Oldest Hebrew Bible Codex. Jewish Publication Society. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-8276-0895-5. Retrieved 18 October 2010. 
  5. ↑ Itamar Leṿin (2001). Locked doors: the seizure of Jewish property in Arab countries. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-275-97134-2. Retrieved 18 October 2010. 
  6. ↑ Benny Morris (2008). 1948: a history of the first Arab-Israeli war. Yale University Press. p. 412. Retrieved 18 October 2010. 
  7. ↑ Andrew G. Bostom (2008). The legacy of Islamic antisemitism: from sacred texts to solemn history. Prometheus Books. p. 159. Retrieved 18 October 2010. 
  8. ↑ W. A. Veenhoven (February 1977). Case Studies on Human Rights And Fundamental Freedoms. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 90. ISBN 978-90-247-1957-0. Retrieved 18 October 2010. 
  9. ↑ Daniel Pipes, Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990) p. 57, records 75 victims of the Aleppo massacre.
  10. ↑ M. Friedman, A different history of displacement and loss, Times of Israel, May 15, 2012.
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