הית
Region: Irak (Euphrate)
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Hit is an ancient city on the middle Euphrates (present-day Iraq), known since Antiquity for its bitumen springs. Medieval Arabic and Jewish sources mention a local Jewish community active in river trade.
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This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Hit give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Sources & resources
- Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World — Brill
- Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
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