https://library.icmglt.org/files/original/6d16a9057455c68bfb1c815b83943eb3.png a7a494b5147d2937a59b16b49cca701c https://library.icmglt.org/files/original/e57454a715b5e603666734841237adc7.pdf 555a853e4d5cfeb54fa594dea3a0448a Electronic Resource View Source <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/20581831.2024.2373660">https://doi.org/10.1080/20581831.2024.2373660</a> Document Type Journal article Author(s) Joel Veldkamp Volume Vol. 9 Issue No. 2 Publisher Taylor & Francis Journal Name Contemporary Levant Publication Date 2024 Region Aleppo, Syria Language English Access Open Access Abstract In the Middle East, as elsewhere, the protracted transition from empire to nation-state was accompanied by a brutal tide of ethnoreligious homogenisation. One of the more dramatic examples was the destruction of the Arab world’s millennia-old Jewish communities. While this destruction is often discussed only in reference to the creation of the State of Israel, this article proposes a complementary model for understanding it, a model predicated on these Jews’ status as ordinary, not exceptional, inhabitants of the Ottoman world, and the disruption caused by the end of the Ottoman empire and its replacement with European colonial rule. Using interwar Aleppo as a case study, this article demonstrates how the end of the Ottoman system of religious communities led to an extended period of dysfunction for Aleppo’s Jewish communal institutions. Under the French Mandate, this dysfunction left Aleppo’s Jews unable to contend with a succession of crises, including a three-way competition for the community’s loyalty between French administrators, Arab nationalists and the Zionist movement. This dysfunction set the stage for the community’s terminal crisis – the 1947 pogroms. Cataloger Kristen Walker Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource So That We Can Safeguard Your Lives': the Jews of Aleppo between colonialism, nationalism, and Zionism, 1918–1946 Subject The topic of the resource Jews--Zionism Aleppo Colonialism Jewish Identity Jews Syria Zionism