The First Jews from Aleppo in Manchester
New Documentary Evidence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12014071 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yaron Harel (0000-0002-2150-385X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 191-202 |
| Publication date | 1998-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AJS Review The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0364-0094 • E-ISSN: 1475-4541 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0364009400010436 |
| OpenAlex | W2158585143 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Professor Meir Benayahu's collection of documents includes a contractual agreement between some Jewish merchants in Aleppo and a hakham by the name of Yeshaya Attia. In it, Attia undertakes to go to the city of Manchester in England to serve as the spiritual leader of a colony of Aleppine merchants there. The document is very important because it enables us to fix, with a high degree of probability, the date of the founding of the Aleppine community in Manchester, the first of many communities of Jews from Aleppo in the West. The document also sheds light on the reasons why Jews emigrated from Aleppo to Manchester and the way in which they organized into a community in their new home. This article traces the background of Jewish emigration from Aleppo to Manchester and the model that the mother community of Aleppine Jewry adopted in dealing with communities made up of emigrants from Aleppo
Aleppo Pine · Ancient history · Archaeology · Emigration · Genealogy · Judaism · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |