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What happened to the Jews in Syria

55 events, 164 BC to 1974 AD

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Cities, towns and sites in Syria

Timeline

2nd century BC

  1. 164 BC Persecution of the Jews of Bashan by Timotheus's forces · Bashan, Syria

1st century

  1. 66 AD Massacre of the Jews of Damascus · Damascus, Syria
  2. 70 AD Pogrom in Damascus · Damascus, Syria

4th century

  1. 388 AD Synagogue attacked in Callinicum · Raqqa (Callinicum), Syria

8th century

  1. c. 750 AD Abbasid decrees and higher taxes on Jews of Damascus · Damascus, Syria
  2. c. 750 AD Abbasid increase in taxes and pressure to convert in Syria · Syria

10th century

  1. c. 1000 AD Caliph al-Hakim's destruction of synagogues in Syria · Syria

11th century

  1. 1014 AD Plundering of Jewish houses in Aleppo · Aleppo, Syria

13th century

  1. c. 1260 AD Mamluk decrees against non-Muslims in Damascus · Damascus, Syria
  2. 1260 AD Mongol slaughter of Jews in Aleppo · Aleppo, Syria

14th century

  1. 1301 AD Mamluk decrees on clothing and dismissal of Jewish officials · Syria
  2. 1321 AD Synagogue attacked in Damascus · Damascus, Syria
  3. 1327 AD Aleppo synagogue turned into a mosque · Aleppo, Syria
  4. 1354 AD General persecution of non-Muslims in Damascus · Damascus, Syria
  5. 1354 AD Mamluk anti-dhimmi decrees of 1301 reintroduced in Syria · Syria
  6. 1365 AD Searches for wine among Jews of Damascus · Damascus, Syria
  7. 1392 AD Accusation against Jews in Damascus · Damascus, Syria
  8. 1400 AD Tamerlane's conquest of Aleppo; Jews killed and enslaved · Aleppo, Syria

15th century

  1. 1401 AD Tamerlane's occupation and ransom of Damascus · Damascus, Syria

16th century

  1. 1570 AD Destruction of the Iraqi Jews' synagogue in Damascus · Damascus, Syria

19th century

  1. 1832 AD Ibrahim Pasha abolishes discriminatory laws in Syria · Syria
  2. 1840 AD American Jews protest the Damascus blood libel · Damascus, Syria
  3. 1840 AD Damascus affair · Damascus, Syria
  4. 1840 AD Damascus blood libel: Jews falsely accused of murdering a friar · Damascus, Syria
  5. 1841–1860 AD Three blood libels in Aleppo · Aleppo, Syria
  6. 1853 AD Greek-Catholic patriarch's blood libel in Aleppo · Aleppo, Syria
  7. 1860 AD Accusation of Jewish involvement in massacre of Maronites; fine and death threat · Damascus, Syria
  8. 1862 AD Imprisonment of Rabbi Raphael Kazin · Aleppo, Syria
  9. 1870–1871 AD Incitement against Damascus Jews by Christians and British consul · Damascus, Syria
  10. 1875 AD Blood libel over missing Armenian boy · Aleppo, Syria
  11. 1875 AD Property taxes imposed on Jewish scholars in Damascus · Damascus, Syria
  12. 1899 AD Expulsion of Rothschild-funded Jewish settlers from Bashan · Bashan, Syria

20th century

  1. 1920 AD Benei Yehudah abandoned after Arab riots and attacks · Bnei Yehuda, Syria
  2. 1925 AD Sacking of the Jewish quarter of Damascus · Damascus, Syria
  3. 1936 AD Jews of Damascus accused of Zionism · Damascus, Syria
  4. 1942 AD Murder of Alliance Israélite Universelle headmaster in Damascus · Damascus, Syria
  5. 1947 AD Anti-Jewish riots erupt in Aleppo · Aleppo, Syria
  6. 1947–1948 AD Anti-Jewish riots and attacks in Damascus · Damascus, Syria
  7. 1948 AD Syria prohibits sale of Jewish property · Syria
  8. 1949 AD 1949 Menarsha synagogue bombing · Damascus, Syria
  9. 1949 AD Bomb planted in Damascus synagogue · Damascus, Syria
  10. 1950 AD Closure of Alliance Israélite Universelle schools · Aleppo, Syria
  11. 1952 AD Closure of the Zilkha Bank in Damascus · Damascus, Syria
  12. 1953 AD Freezing of Jewish bank accounts in Syria · Syria
  13. 1954 AD Exit restrictions on Jews of Damascus · Damascus, Syria
  14. 1954 AD Syrian police bar Jews from leaving after brief permission · Syria
  15. 1958 AD Exit ban on Jews lifted under the United Arab Republic · Syria
  16. 1964 AD Decree restricting Jewish travel to three miles · Syria
  17. 1965 AD Assaults on Jews after Eli Cohen's hanging · Syria
  18. 1965–1967 AD Persecution and arrests of Jews in Damascus · Damascus, Syria
  19. 1967 AD Arrests and attacks on Jews during the Six-Day War · Syria
  20. 1967 AD Dismissal of Jewish teachers and degrading regulations · Aleppo, Syria
  21. 1974 AD Jewish men charged with murder and smuggling to cover up atrocity · Damascus, Syria
  22. 1974 AD Massacre in Zabdani Mountains · Zabadani Mountains, Syria
  23. 1974 AD Murder of four Jewish women attempting to flee Syria · Damascus, Syria

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