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Salmas jews in a 1834 book
The following was taken from a letter included in a book Missionary Researches in Armenia: Including a Journey Through Asia Minor … By Eli Smith, Harrison Gray Otis Dwight, Josiah Conder, Published in London, 1834 Salmas is mentioned by ancient writers as a town in the Armenian province of Persarmenia. …
Short newspaper clips – Nashdidan
Jews of the Oldest Community in Turkey Arrive in Istanbul En Route to Israel Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Daily news bulletin – October 24, 1950 The first group of Israel-bound emigrants from the Jewish community of Van–a town in easternmost Turkey–have arrived here. They are being sheltered, together with Kurdish Jews …
LOSING LISHÁN: A GATEKEEPER OF KNOWLEDGE
Lishán Didán is a Jewish dialect of Aramaic. BY JACQUELINE TAYLOR MAY 4, 2019 22:46 Language is the gatekeeper of knowledge. Every language carries with it a unique set of knowledge which it gathers and passes on through generations. One could argue we were only put on this earth to teach future …
On camels from Persia to Israel (auto translated)
Baba Yousef's story, his ormia's ascent to Israel on a three-year hike through Iraq, in the 1920s. Published by Deborah Dor in the newspaper "on guard" on Friday, 13-1968-page 5.
Distant JEWISH ethnic group does “Aliyah”
This article was published in 1953 Hazofe newspaper about the extraction of a distant community near Hakkari in south east Turkey. In wednesday, a group of 11 members of a distant community in south Turkey will sail from Istanbul to Israel. Their existence was not known until 26 of them …
Jews of Hakkari (Gever)
Traveler Frederic Millingen mentioned about population of Hakkari as 210,000 individuals in 1870, of which 2,000 were Jewish. Two decades after Millinge, Vital Cuinet estimated a total population of Hakkari as 300,000 at the end of the nineteenth century. Of this number 4,000 were Jewish and 112,000 Christians. During my …
Jews of Başkale and Van
Van as a site is an ancient city. For centuries different religious communities lived together in harmony in the city. Muslims, Armenians (Gregorian, Catholic and Protestant Armenians) and Jews lived in Van for a ling time of period. Accordingly, Kemal Karpat in his study, Ottoman Population 1830-1914 Demographic and Social …
Jews of Salmas, taken from a 1833 book
This is part of Rev. E. Smith (An American Missionary and Orientalist) and Rev. H.G.O. Dwight research in Armenia. It was published in 1833 by Crocker and Brewster and was retrieved from the University of Harvard.
The following is taken from pages 193-195 of VOL II of the book: