Editing Aleppo (section)

===Jews===
[[File:Synagogue Aleppo.jpg|thumb|The [[Central Synagogue of Aleppo]] in 2011]]
The city was home to a significant [[Jewish]] population from ancient times. The [[Central Synagogue of Aleppo|Great Synagogue]], built in the 5th century, housed the [[Aleppo Codex]].<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18957096 Profile: Aleppo, Syria's second city] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415053417/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18957096 |date=15 April 2018 }}. [[BBC News]]. 24 July 2012.</ref> The Jews of Aleppo were known for their religious commitment, Rabbinic leadership, and their liturgy, consisting of [[Pizmonim]] and [[Baqashot]]. After the [[Spanish Inquisition]], the city of Aleppo received many [[Sephardic Jewish]] immigrants, who eventually joined with the [[Musta'arabi Jews|native Aleppo Jewish community]]. Peaceful relations existed between the Jews and surrounding population. In the early 20th century, the town's Jews lived mainly in Al-Jamiliyah, Bab Al-Faraj and the neighbourhoods around the Great Synagogue. Unrest in Palestine in the years preceding the establishment of Israel in 1948 resulted in growing hostility towards Jews living in Arab countries, culminating in the [[Jewish exodus from Arab lands]]. In December 1947, after the UN decided the [[partition of Palestine]], an Arab mob<ref>Howard Sachar, A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time., (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), p. 400; Maurice Roumani, The Case of the Jews from Arab Countries: A Neglected Issue, (Tel Aviv: World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries, 1977), p. 31; Norman Stillman, The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times, (NY: Jewish Publication Society, 1991), p. 146</ref> [[Aleppo pogrom|attacked the Jewish quarter]]. Homes, schools and shops were badly damaged.<ref name="Human rights in Syria">{{cite book |author=James A. Paul |title=Human Rights in Syria |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_N-xjxWYWnlwC |year=1990 |publisher=Human Rights Watch |isbn=978-0-929692-69-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_N-xjxWYWnlwC/page/n94 91] |access-date=12 October 2015}}</ref> Soon after, many of the town's remaining 6,000 Jews emigrated.<ref name="books.google.co.uk">{{cite book |author1=Cyrus Adler |author2=Henrietta Szold |title=The American Jewish Year Book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6KgyAAAAMAAJ |year=1949 |publisher=American Jewish Committee |page=441 |access-date=12 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191029010336/https://books.google.com/books?id=6KgyAAAAMAAJ |archive-date=29 October 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1968, there were an estimated 700 Jews still remaining in Aleppo.<ref>{{cite book |author=Avi Beker |title=Jewish Communities of the World |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FP_38S-75eQC |year=1998 |publisher=Lerner Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-8225-9822-0 |page=208 |access-date=16 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191029010338/https://books.google.com/books?id=FP_38S-75eQC |archive-date=29 October 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The houses and other properties of the Jewish families which were not sold after the migration, remain uninhabited under the protection of the Syrian Government. Most of these properties are in Al-Jamiliyah and Bab Al-Faraj areas, and the neighbourhoods around the [[Central Synagogue of Aleppo]]. In 1992, the Syrian government lifted the travel ban on its 4,500 Jewish citizens.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/28/world/syria-giving-jews-freedom-to-leave.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |title=The New York Times:Syria Giving Jews Freedom To Leave |work=The New York Times |date=28 April 1992 |access-date=11 March 2012 |first=Thomas L. |last=Friedman |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524224212/http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/28/world/syria-giving-jews-freedom-to-leave.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |archive-date=24 May 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> Most traveled to the United States, where a sizable number of [[Syrian Jews]] currently live in [[Brooklyn]], New York. The last Jews of Aleppo, the Halabi family, were evacuated from the city in October 2016 by the [[Free Syrian Army]] and now live in Israel.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Solomon |first1=Daniel |title=There Are No More Jews in Aleppo |url=http://forward.com/news/356914/aleppos-last-jewish-family-flees-for-israel-amid-devastation/?attribution=home-article-listing-12-headline |access-date=14 December 2016 |work=The Forward |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220191207/http://forward.com/news/356914/aleppos-last-jewish-family-flees-for-israel-amid-devastation/?attribution=home-article-listing-12-headline |archive-date=20 December 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The Jews from Aleppo referred to their city as "Aram Tzova" (ארם צובא) after the ancient [[Aramean]] city of [[Aram-Zobah]] mentioned in the [[Hebrew Bible]].