:Tadef

The village was inhabited during the 19th century by Arabs belonging to the Aneyzeh tribe.{{cite book|title=Van Nostrand's engineering magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u0fOAAAAMAAJ|access-date=24 November 2010|year=1881|publisher=D. Van Nostrand.|page=414}} During the late 1800s, the village came under repeated attack by nomadic tribes who wished to steal sheep and cattle from the surrounding plains. Casualties were reported as the villagers were able to muster over 400 armed men to defend their flocks and herds.{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons|title=House of Commons papers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r9oSAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA42|access-date=24 November 2010|year=1860|publisher=HMSO|page=42}} At the time, about 20 Jewish families lived in the village,{{cite book|author=Israel Joseph Benjamin|title=Eight years in Asia and Africa from 1846-1855|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VuEf5REN2RUC&pg=PA40|access-date=24 November 2010|year=1859|publisher=The author|page=49}} which was described as a "Jewish town".{{cite book|title=Evangelical Christendom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cgYFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA42|access-date=24 November 2010|volume=XIV|year=1860|publisher=William John Johnson|location=London|page=42}} Before the festival of Shavuot, Jews from Aleppo made an annual pilgrimage to the village.

In 1931, there were 15 Jewish families living in the town.{{cite book|author=Aron Rodrigue|title=Jews and Muslims: images of Sephardi and eastern Jewries in modern times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3NatkG7sGCkC&pg=PA170|access-date=24 November 2010|year=2003|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0-295-98314-1|page=170}}

On 30 November 2024, SNA forces captured the town.{{Cite web |date=2024-12-01 |title=Escalating conflict in northern Aleppo: Pro-Turkish factions launch offensive as Syrian army tightens control - MAP/VIDEO |url=https://caliber.az/en/post/escalating-conflict-in-northern-aleppo-pro-turkish-factions-launch-offensive-as-syrian-army-tightens-control |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=caliber.az |language=en}}

Local tradition maintains that Ezra (c. 400 BCE) paused in the town on his way from Babylon to Jerusalem and built the synagogue which still stands today.{{cite book|author1=Lucien Gubbay|author2=Abraham Levy|title=The Sephardim: their glorious tradition from the Babylonian exile to the present day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dlowAQAAIAAJ|access-date=24 November 2010|date=June 1992|publisher=Carnell|isbn=978-1-85779-036-8|page=79}} In 1899, Max Freiherr von Oppenheim discovered 14th-century Hebrew inscriptions at the synagogue.{{cite book|author1=Kevin J. Cathcart|author2=Carmel McCarthy|author3=John F. Healey|title=Biblical and Near Eastern essays: studies in honour of Kevin J. Cathcart|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7K0NqGJg2tcC&pg=PA317|access-date=24 November 2010|year=2004|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-8264-6690-7|page=317}} There is a spring near the town called Ein el-Uzir, where it is said Ezra regularly immersed himself during his sojourn there.{{cite book|author=David Sutton|title=Aleppo: city of scholars|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=puEtAQAAIAAJ|access-date=24 November 2010|date=30 March 2005|publisher=Mesorah|isbn=978-1-57819-056-0|page=12}}{{cite book|author1=Ḥayim Sabato|author2=Philip Simpson|title=Aleppo tales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVUOAAAAYAAJ|access-date=24 November 2010|year=2004|publisher=Toby Press|isbn=978-1-59264-051-5|page=53}} A tomb ascribed to Ezra is also located in the town and has been intact for many centuries.{{cite book|author=Walter P. Zenner|title=A global community: the Jews from Aleppo, Syria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WpbKxrYZ4G0C&pg=PA34|access-date=24 November 2010|year=2000|publisher=Wayne State University Press|isbn=978-0-8143-2791-3|page=34}} On a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1414, Issac Elfarra of Málaga was informed:

At a distance of two (sic) miles from [Aleppo] is the tomb of Ezra the Scribe. There Ezra recorded the Torah... This village is called Taduf [and contains] a synagogue... They [also] say that every night year round a cloud ascends from the tomb of Ezra never departing.{{cite book|author=Josef W. Meri|title=The cult of saints among Muslims and Jews in medieval Syria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CJ8_4Kt0XUgC&pg=PA24|access-date=24 November 2010|year=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press US|isbn=978-0-19-925078-3|page=24}}

There is also another tomb attributed to Ezra near Basra, Iraq.

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