Aleppo’s Crown Jewels – Aleppo’s Jews
Leah Bornstein Makovetsky
Aleppo’s Jewish community was famous for two things: its trading acumen and its biblical codex. Among its sharpest financial minds and its scholars’ most generous supporters were the Francos, Italian merchants who brought the winds...
AleppoArticlesEarly modern periodIssue 77 | June 2026Syrian Jews