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    The Jewish Quarter of Damascus (Arabic: حارة اليهود, DMG Ḥārat al-Yahūd) is the quarter in the southeastern part of the Old City of Damascus inhabited...
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    the Jewish diaspora, a Jewish quarter (also known as jewry, juiverie, Judengasse, Jewynstreet, Jewtown, Juderia or proto-ghetto) is the area of a city...
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    The Damascus affair of February 1840 was the disappearance of an Italian monk and his servant, for which a large number of Jews were summarily tortured...
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    https://www.al-islam.org/ziyarat/syria.htm#Damascus Archived 11 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine "Jewish Quarter of Damascus blooms again". 5 November 2010. Archived...
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  • 1949 Menarsha synagogue bombing (category 20th century in Damascus)
    August 1949 in the Jewish quarter of Damascus, Syria. The grenade attack claimed the lives of 12 civilians and injured about 30. Most of the victims were...
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    bordering on the Jewish and Armenian Quarters, as far as the Damascus Gate in the east, where it borders on the Muslim Quarter. The Christian quarter contains...
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    The Jewish Quarter (Hebrew: הרובע היהודי, HaRova HaYehudi; Arabic: حارة اليهود, Harat al-Yehud) is one of the four traditional quarters of the Old City...
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    fled after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal in 1492 CE. There were large Jewish communities in Aleppo, Damascus, and Qamishli for centuries...
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    Syrian Jews (redirect from Syrian Jewish)
    Synagogue Central Synagogue of Aleppo Jewish Quarter of Damascus History of Syria Persecution of Jews Syrian Cantors Weekly Maqam List of Syrians Chafets, Zev...
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    The Judería de Córdoba, ‘the Jewish Quarter of Córdoba’, is the area of the Spanish city of Córdoba in which the Jews lived between the 10th and 15th centuries...
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  • historical events of "the Damascus Affair" are the disappearance of a monk on the eve of Passover in the Jewish quarter of Damascus. It led to blood libel...
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    of Damascus (Arabic: دِمَشْق ٱلْقَدِيمَة, romanized: Dimašq al-Qadīmah) is the historic city centre of Damascus, Syria. The old city, which is one of...
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  • Menarsha Synagogue (category Buildings and structures inside the walled city of Damascus)
    Great Synagogue of Damascus, is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, that was located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Damascus, in Syria. Completed...
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    The Damascus Gate is one of the main Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is located in the wall on the city's northwest side and connects to a highway...
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  • Elfrange Synagogue (category Buildings and structures inside the walled city of Damascus)
    the Faranj Synagogue, is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the Jewish Quarter, in the Old City of Damascus, in Syria. The Elfrange Synagogue...
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    the Damascus Gate in the north extending southwards and splitting in two branches, the western branch leading up to the modern day Jewish quarter, and...
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    Jews (redirect from Jewish)
    the same period, Jewish communities in the Middle East thrived under Islamic rule, especially in cities like Baghdad, Cairo, and Damascus. In Babylonia,...
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    northern wall of the Temple Mount in the south, to the Damascus Gate—Western Wall route in the west. The Via Dolorosa starts in this quarter, a path Jesus...
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    map of the city, the Old City is divided into four uneven quarters: the Muslim Quarter, the Christian Quarter, the Armenian Quarter, and the Jewish Quarter...
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    Shukri al-Quwatli (category People from Damascus)
    studied at the preparatory high school of Maktab Anbar in the Jewish quarter of Damascus. He obtained his baccalauréat in 1908. He then moved to Istanbul...
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  • Rawan Osman (category Writers from Damascus)
    skills to open a wine bar in Damascus. There, she met Jewish people for the first time while living in the city's Jewish quarter. These encounters forced...
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    Jewish cemetery in Damascus, and Jewish schools were closed and handed over to Muslims. The Jewish Quarter of Damascus was under constant surveillance...
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    against members of the Jewish community of Damascus. 1840 Rhodes blood libel: The Jews of Rhodes, under the Ottoman Empire, were accused of murdering a Greek...
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  • Racqy Synagogue (category Buildings and structures inside the walled city of Damascus)
    Hebrew: אל ראקי) is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Damascus, in Syria. The synagogue was...
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  • Rhodes blood libel (category Jewish Rhodian history)
    confessed. It blockaded the entire Jewish quarter for twelve days. The Jewish community of Rhodes appealed for help from the Jewish community in Constantinople...
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  • of Portugal The Ambato earthquake killed 5,050 people in Ecuador. Menarsha synagogue attack: A grenade attack on a synagogue in the Jewish quarter of...
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    / 31.7738389°N 35.2430694°E / 31.7738389; 35.2430694 The Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives (Hebrew: בֵּית הַקְּבָרוֹת הַיְּהוּדִי בְּהַר הַזֵּיתִים...
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  • policeman, and one civilian were killed in an attack on the diplomatic quarter of Damascus, damaging a building formerly used by the UN. Police blamed Islamists...
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    synagogue attack was a grenade attack in the Jewish quarter of Damascus that took 12 lives. 1952 The Night of the Murdered Poets. The thirteen most prominent...
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    Safed (redirect from History of Safed)
    proposed to be part of a Jewish state in the 1947 UN Partition Plan. During the 1948 war, Arab factions attacked and besieged the Jewish quarter which held out...
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