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✅   Fall of Assad revives interest in Judeo-Syrian Arabic, Syria's nearly lost Jewish dialect

Culture

The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime on Sunday, after years of civil war and opposition unrest, has brought a new focus on Syria’s cultural heritage. Among the many stories resurfacing in the wake of this historical moment is that of Judeo-Syrian Arabic, a nearly extinct dialect central to Aleppo and Damascus's Jewish communities.Judeo-Syrian Arabic is a linguistic relic of Syria’s Jewish past, blending the Levantine Arabic spoken by the majority population with Hebrew and Aramaic elements. For centuries, it was no one's communication but lands of cultural and religious identity for Syrian Jewry.The Jewish community of Syria has ancient roots, tracing back to the Babylonian exile in 586 BCE.

Jerusalem Post     Dec 08, 2024