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Referencesbook chapter 2000 • Zenner, Walter P.
Israelis • Middle East > Middle East
This work consists of bibliographical citations relevant to documents 18: Zenner and 19: Zenner in this file (eHRAF documents Zenner, 2000, nos. 18 and 19)....Migration of Syrian Jews to Eretz Yisrael, 1880-1950book chapter 2000 • Zenner, Walter P.
Israelis • Middle East > Middle East
Zenner discusses the migration of Syrian Jews to Israel from the mid-nineteenth century up to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. Early migrants were mostly rabbinic scholars who came to Jerusalem for sacred study. Their travel did not entai...The descendants of Allepo Jews in Jerusalem and Israel, 1962 and 1993book chapter 2000 • Zenner, Walter P.
Israelis • Middle East > Middle East
In 1993, Zenner returned to a community of Syrian Jews he had studied in the early 1960s and discusses the changes that have happened to its members since then. He found that the Syrian Jews have achieved a higher standard of living and have become f...