Yehude Suryah
Subtitle: hisṭoryah, tarbut ṿe-zehut = Syrian Jewry : history, culture and identity
By: ʻorekh, Yaron Harʼel
Series: Ḳehilah u-moreshet; Ḳehilah u-moreshet
Publisher: Hotsaʼat Universiṭat Bar-Ilan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Ramat-Gan
Language: heb
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9789652263667
Subjects: Jews; History; Identity; Music; History and criticism; Social life and customs; Ethnic relations
Other titles: Syrian Jewry :
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Hebrew and English; table of contents also in English.
Table of contents: title: The halakhic status of Syria today : balancing textual and political considerations / Neria Guttel; title: Syrian Jewry under the Assad dynasty : an end that is a beginning / Eyal Zisser; title: Jewish history as reflected in Syrian historiography / Rachel Maissy-Noy; title: The visual depiction of Abraham in the Dura-Europos synagogue as a historical text / Rivka Potchebutzky; title: "A clearly distinguished community" : the Mustaʼribs in Damascus in the sixteenth century / Dotan Arad; title: Sabbateans and Sabbatianism in the community of Allepo : sources and new discoveries / Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky; title: Individualistic or caring? The communities of Damascus and Aleppo in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Yaron Ayalon; title: The Damascene community and its portrayal in the works of Yehuda Burla / Aviva Argov; title: Literature and reality : the portrayal of the Halebi woman in the novel Michel Ezra Safra and sons, by Amnon Shamosh / Tsvia Meir; title: Syrian Jewish cuisine as an expression of ethnic diversity / Shoshi Banit; title: The influences of the musical tradition of Allepo's Jews on the Jerusalem-Sephardi liturgical style / Essica Marks; title: Social and musical interaction in the singing of piyyuṭim of the Halebi-Jerusalemite tradition : its manifestation in the performances of five payṭanim from Ades Synagogue / Kumiko Yayama; title: R. Shmuel Masnut and his literary work / Hananel Mack; title: Some remarks on R. Yoshiyahu Pinto's sermons / Shaul Regev; title: "A seal of truth which I have sought and loved with all my being" : aspects of the halakhic and religious world of Rabbi Shaul-Matloub ʻAbadi / Zvi Zohar; title: The Jewish community of Kamishli in the crossfire of Arab nationalism and the Zionist movement / Nachum Menachem; title: Economy and community : Syrian Jews in Latin America, 1890-1930 / Margalit Bejarano; title: Jewish architecture in Syria / David M. Cassuto; title: Syrian Jews and Syrian Catholics in New York : communal survival in comparative perspective / Jane Gerber and Reeva Spector Simon; title: Keeping the home fires burning : the role of Syrian Jewish women in preserving communal identity / Paulette Kershenovich Schuster; title: Contemporary religious movements within Mexico's Halebi Jewish community : three case studies / Liz Hamui Sutton; title: An analysis of Brooklyn's rabbinical takana prohibiting Syrian and Near Eastern Jews from marrying converts / Sarina Roffé; title: A case of Dasmascan cantorial creativity in light of Najara's poetic model / Amnon Shiloah; title: Halebi Syrian cantors in Brooklyn : descendents of immigrants still sing / Mark Kligman.