Assyrian Jews
{{Short description|Assyrian Jews biblically attested ethnic group}}
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Assyrian Jews ({{langx|he|יהודים אַשּׁוּרִים|Yehudim Ashurim}}){{cite web |title=הארגון הארצי של יהודי כורדיסטן מבקש |url=http://www.aina.org/news/20191001150413.htm}}{{failed verification|reason=This term is nowhere on the page.|date=September 2023}} first appeared in the territory of Assyria when the Israelites were exiled to Assyria in approximately 740 BCE.The Books of Kings and Chronicles modern view by Umberto Cassuto and Elia Samuele Artom{{who|date=September 2023}} (1981){{full citation needed|date=September 2023}}{{full citation needed|date=September 2023}} Jews have been continuously living alongside the Assyrian people in the territories of Assyria since the Assyrian exile.Rea, Cam. The Assyrian Exile: Israel's Legacy in Captivity, p. 47 {{ISBN|1-60481-173-0}}
History
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Assyrian Jews are Aramaic-speaking Mizrahi Jewish communities native to the geographic region of Mesopotamia the Zagros Mountains, roughly covering parts of northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey. Assyrian Jews lived as closed ethnic communities until they were expelled from Arab and Muslim states from the 1940s–1950s onward. The community largely speaks Judeo-Aramaic.{{cite journal|last1=Frye|first1=Richard N.|title=Review of G. R. Driver's "Aramaic Documents of the Fifth Century B. C."|journal=Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies|volume=18|issue=3/4|year=1955|pages=456–461|doi=10.2307/2718444|last2=Driver|first2=G. R.|jstor=2718444}} p. 457.{{citation|author1=F. Rosenthal |author2=J. C. Greenfield |author3=S. Shaked |title=Aramaic |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Iranica |publisher=Iranica Online |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/aramaic- |date=December 15, 1986}}{{sfn|Beyer|1986|p=}} Many Assyrian Jews, especially the ones who hailed from larger cities of Iraq, went through a Sephardic Jewish blending during the 18th century.https://lawoffice.org.il/מגורשי-ספרד-בעיראק-הוצאת-דרכון-פורטוג/
See also
References
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=Works cited=
- {{Cite book |last=Beyer |first=Klaus |title=The Aramaic Language: Its Distribution and Subdivisions |year=1986 |location=Göttingen |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |isbn=9783525535738 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pZ53zpMQNLEC}}
External links
- [https://www.assyrianjews.com/ Assyrian Jews]
- [https://www.assyriatv.org/2020/02/lecture-by-dr-yaacov-maoz-about-assyrian-jews-in-israel/ Prof. Maoz about Assyrian Jews]
- [https://www.sbs.com.au/language/assyrian/en/podcast-episode/assyrian-jews-in-israel/4lgnglru4 Assyrian Jews in Israel]
- [https://patriciagkirkpatrick.com/assyrian-jews-in-captivity/ Assyrian Jews in Captivity]
- [https://www.studycountry.com/guide/SY-language.htm Assyrian Jewish language]