Tadef

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Tadef
تادف
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Tadef (

Al Bab.[2] The town, which is the site of a shrine to the Jewish prophet Ezra (c. 400 BCE), was a popular summer resort for the Jews of Aleppo.[3]

History

The village was inhabited during the 19th century by Arabs belonging to the Aneyzeh tribe.[4] 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.[5] At the time, about 20 Jewish families lived in the village,[6] which was described as a "Jewish town".[7] Before the festival of Shavuot, Jews from Aleppo made an annual pilgrimage to the village.[6]

In 1931, there were 15 Jewish families living in the town.[8]

Association with Ezra

Local tradition maintains that

Hebrew inscriptions at the synagogue.[10] There is a spring near the town called Ein el-Uzir, where it is said Ezra regularly immersed himself during his sojourn there.[11][12] A tomb ascribed to Ezra is also located in the town and has been intact for many centuries.[13] 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.[14]

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

References

  1. ^ "2004 Census Data for Nahiya Tadef" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
  2. ^ Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1856). A Gazetteer of the World: Ta-Zzubin and appendix. A. Fullarton. p. 45. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  3. ^ Joseph A. D. Sutton (January 1988). Aleppo chronicles: the story of the unique Sephardeem of the Ancient Near East, in their own words. Thayer-Jacoby. p. 162. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  4. ^ Van Nostrand's engineering magazine. D. Van Nostrand. 1881. p. 414. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  5. ^ Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1860). House of Commons papers. HMSO. p. 42. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  6. ^ a b Israel Joseph Benjamin (1859). Eight years in Asia and Africa from 1846-1855. The author. p. 49. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  7. ^ Evangelical Christendom. Vol. XIV. London: William John Johnson. 1860. p. 42. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  8. ISBN 978-0-295-98314-1
    . Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  9. ISBN 978-1-85779-036-8
    . Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  10. ISBN 978-0-8264-6690-7
    . Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  11. ISBN 978-1-57819-056-0
    . Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  12. ISBN 978-1-59264-051-5
    . Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  13. ISBN 978-0-8143-2791-3
    . Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  14. ISBN 978-0-19-925078-3
    . Retrieved 24 November 2010.
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