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IntersectionLieuXIXe–XXe siècle

Region: Syrie (Hauran/Djebel druze)

Intersection register · custodian, not owner

The capital of the Jabal al-Druze, As-Suwayda counted a few Jewish families listed in the late Ottoman registers of the nineteenth century. The community was very small and linked to the commercial networks of Damascus.

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The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Suwayda (As-Suweïda) give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day

Sources & resources

  • Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic WorldBrill

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