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Zakhor
IntersectionLieuMoyen Âge–XIXe siècle

Region: Turquie (Anatolie orientale)

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Van is a city in eastern Turkey, on the shores of Lake Van, in the historic region of Armenia. A Jewish presence is documented there in medieval and Ottoman sources, in this space of contact between Armenian, Kurdish, and Jewish cultures.

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The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Van 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
  • Encyclopaedia Judaica2e éd., Keter/Macmillan

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