Syrian Jews

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Syrian Jews are a Jewish community originating from Syria, known for their distinct religious traditions, liturgical customs, and diaspora communities in places like the United States, Israel, and Latin America.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish ethnic group
Mizrahi Jews
Sephardi Jews
countryOfOrigin Syria
culturalPractice distinctSyrianJewishCuisine
preservationOfArabicMelodiesInLiturgy
strongEndogamyNorms
useOfPizmonimInReligiousCeremonies
demographicTrend mostCommunityMembersNowLiveOutsideSyria
ethnicOrigin Syria
experiencedEvent emigrationFromSyriaIn20thCentury
massAliyahToIsrael
restrictionsOnEmigrationUnderBaathRegime
historicalCommunityStatus oneOfOldestJewishCommunitiesInTheMiddleEast
historicalStatusInSyria dhimmi
languageTraditionallySpoken Arabic
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
majorCommunityCity Aleppo
Brooklyn
Buenos Aires
Damascus
Jerusalem
Mexico City
New York City
Panama City
Qamishli
São Paulo
majorDiasporaCommunityIn Argentina
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Israel
Mexico
Panama
United States of America
surface form: United States

Venezuela
notableCommunityCenter Brooklyn Syrian Jewish community
Buenos Aires Syrian Jewish community
Deal New Jersey Syrian Jewish community
Syrian Jews self-linksurface differs
surface form: Jerusalem Syrian Jewish community
notableReligiousTextTradition PizmonimCollections
Sephardi-Mizrahi prayer rite
surface form: SyrianSephardiPrayerBooks
religion Judaism
religiousRite Sephardi-Mizrahi prayer rite
surface form: Edot HaMizrach rite

Sephardi rite
subgroup Syrian Jews self-linksurface differs
surface form: Aleppan Jews

Syrian Jews self-linksurface differs
surface form: Damascene Jews

Mizrahi Jews
surface form: Halabi Jews

Mizrahi Jews
surface form: Shami Jews
traditionalLiturgicalLanguage Aramaic
Hebrew
traditionalPrayerRite Sephardi-Edot HaMizrach nusach
traditionalReligiousLawAuthority Ben Ish Chai
Sephardi rabbinic tradition
Shulchan Aruch

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Mizrahi Jews notableSubgroup Syrian Jews
Syrian Jews subgroup Syrian Jews self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Aleppan Jews
Syrian Jews subgroup Syrian Jews self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Damascene Jews
Syrian Jews notableCommunityCenter Syrian Jews self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Jerusalem Syrian Jewish community
Syrian American hasSubgroup Syrian Jews
this entity surface form: Syrian American Jews
Babylonian cantillation usedIn Syrian Jews
this entity surface form: Syrian Jewish communities