Damascus Jewish community

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Damascus_Jewish_community
GPTKB entity
Statements (48)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Jewish_community
gptkbp:containsCommunity rabbinical courts
charitable organizations
Jewish schools
gptkbp:culturalHeritage gptkb:Damascus_Haggadah
unique liturgical traditions
gptkbp:DamascusAffairYear 1840
gptkbp:declinedAfter emigration to Israel
emigration to United States
emigration to Latin America
gptkbp:demographics mass emigration after 1948
further decline after 1967
gptkbp:diaspora gptkb:Brooklyn,_New_York
gptkb:Buenos_Aires
gptkb:Geneva
gptkb:Mexico_City
gptkbp:hasHistoricSite gptkb:Jewish_Quarter_of_Old_Damascus
Jobar Synagogue (destroyed in Syrian Civil War)
gptkbp:hasSynagogue gptkb:Eliahu_Hanavi_Synagogue
gptkb:Al-Franj_Synagogue
gptkb:Jobar_Synagogue
gptkbp:historicalPresence ancient times
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Damascus Jewish community
gptkbp:interactsWith gptkb:French_Mandate_authorities
gptkb:Ottoman_Empire
gptkb:religious_organization
local Muslim population
gptkbp:language gptkb:Arabic
gptkb:Hebrew
gptkb:Judeo-Arabic
gptkbp:locatedIn gptkb:Damascus
gptkb:Syria
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Damascus_Affair
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:Moses_Abulafia
gptkb:Joseph_Shamah
gptkb:Jacob_Antebi
gptkbp:notableRuler gptkb:Ezra_Bessaroth
gptkb:Jacob_Saul_Dwek
gptkb:Isaac_Abulafia
gptkbp:persecutedBy gptkb:Damascus_blood_libel
gptkbp:populationDecline after 1948
gptkbp:populationPeak 20th century
gptkbp:status almost extinct
gptkbp:statusIn21stCentury fewer than 20 Jews remaining by 2010s
gptkbp:tradition gptkb:Jewish_community
Mizrahi Judaism
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Pizmonim
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5