1947 Aleppo pogrom
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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 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]
History
| Jewish exodus from Arab countries 1947–1972 |
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Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries |
| 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) · Cairo (Egypt) · Baghdad (Iraq) |
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| WOJAC · JIMENA · The David Project |
| Resettlement |
| Aliyah · Law of Return · Development towns · North African Jewry in France |
| Related topics |
| Jewish history · Jewish diaspora · History under Muslim rule Mizrahi Jews · Sephardi Jews · Arab Jews |
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, 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 murdered are put at around 75. Several hundred Jews were wounded.[1][4][6] Ten synagogues, five schools, an orphanage and a youth club, along with various 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 fled in fear.[2] During the pogrom the Crown of Aleppo was burned and lost.[4] The pogrom took place just two years after the Nazi Holocaust in which six million Jews were murdered, and Arab leaders such as Haj Amin al-Husseini, called for the Arab world to finish the job that Hitler started.
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Colin Shindler (2008). A history of modern Israel. Cambridge University Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-521-61538-9. http://books.google.com/books?id=u0sD-8r7I5QC&pg=PA63. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
- ^ 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. http://books.google.com/books?id=lMLmK-fmf8kC&pg=PA56. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
- ^ 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 978-0-8276-0895-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=Rkjl28v4ZdAC&pg=PA163. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
- ^ Itamar Leṿin (2001). Locked doors: the seizure of Jewish property in Arab countries. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-275-97134-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=pxgonnuybEgC&pg=PA167. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
- ^ Daniel Pipes, Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990) p. 57, records 75 victims of the Aleppo massacre.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ W. A. Veenhoven (February 1977). Case Studies on Human Rights And Fundamental Freedoms. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 90. ISBN 978-90-247-1957-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=AN6dSGr3kWcC&pg=PA90. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
- ^ M. Friedman, A different history of displacement and loss, Times of Israel, May 15, 2012.
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