Aleppo Tales
by Haim Sabato
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The Jewish community of Aleppo, Syria, the biblical Aram Soba, is one of the worlds most ancient. The community serves as guardian of the famous Keter Torah scroll, and boasts of a synagogue dating back to the Second Temple Period. This three-story collection interlaces the fictionalized history of Sabatos Aleppo family with social and political turmoil spanning more than a century, from Syria to France and Israel. Sabato skillfully describes how religious values, practice, and faith provide show more the strength for the Aleppo Jewish community and its descendants to live through difficult times and build meaningful lives. show lessTags
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- Syria
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- Fiction and Literature
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- 892.4 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Afro-Asiatic literatures Jewish, Israeli, and Hebrew
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- PJ5055.4 .A24 .E4813 — Language and Literature Oriental languages and literatures Oriental philology and literature Hebrew Literature Individual authors and works
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