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Jewish Quarter

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Map of the Jewish Quarter
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Early 20th century. The Jewish quarter is at the bottom of the image. The two large domes are the Hurva Synagogue and the Tiferes Yisrael Synagogue. Both were destroyed by the Jordanians in 1948.
For the article on Jewish Quarters throughout the Jewish diaspora, see Jewish Quarter (diaspora)
The Jewish Quarter (Hebrew: הרובע היהודי‎, HaRova HaYehudi or the Rova) is one of the four traditional quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem. It lies in the southeastern sector of the walled city, and stretches from the Zion Gate in the south, along the Armenian Quarter on the west, up to the Cardo in the north and extends to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount in the east.

The quarter has had a rich history, with a nearly continual Jewish presence since the eight century B.C.E. In 1948 during the Arab-Israeli war its population of about 2,000 Jews was besieged, and forced to leave en masse. The Israeli representative to the United Nations claimed in 1968 in a letter to the United Nation Security Council that Jordanian Colonel Abdullah el-Tal, one-time commandant of the Arab Legion, had described the destruction of the Jewish Quarter in his memoirs (Cairo, 1959) with the words:

"... The operations of calculated destruction were set in motion.... I knew that the Jewish Quarter was densely populated with Jews who caused their fighters a good deal of interference and difficulty.... I embarked, therefore, on the shelling of the Quarter with mortars, creating harassment and destruction.... Only four days after our entry into Jerusalem the Jewish Quarter had become their graveyard. Death and destruction reigned over it...." "As the dawn of Friday, May 28, 1948, was about to break, the Jewish Quarter emerged convulsed in a black cloud - a cloud of death and agony."

– Yosef TEKOAH (Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations) quoting Abdullah el-Tal



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Jewish Quarter residents evacuating the Old City through the Zion Gate, May 1948
Under the Jordanian occupation all but one of the thirty-five Jewish houses of worship that graced the Old City were wantonly destroyed. The synagogues had been razed or pillaged and stripped and their interiors and used as hen-houses or stables.[1]

The quarter remained under Transjordanian occupation until its capture by Israeli paratroops in the Six-Day War of 1967. During the 1960s American town planners, together with the Jordanian authorities, planned that the quarter be transformed into a park.[2] The quarter has since been rebuilt and settled, and has a population of 2,348 (as of 2004) [1], and many large educational institutions have taken up residence.

Before being rebuilt, the quarter was carefully excavated under the supervision of Hebrew University archaeologist Nahman Avigad. The archaeological remains, on display in a series of museums and outdoor parks to visit which tourists descend two or three stories beneath the level of the current city, collectively form one of the world's most accessible archaeological sites.

References

1. ^ LETTER DATED 5 MARCH 1968 FROM THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF ISRAEL TO THE UNITED NATIONS ADDRESSED TO THE SECRETARY-GENERAL
2. ^ Shepherd, Naomi (1988). "The View from the Citadel", Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem. New York City: Harper & Row, Publishers, pg.20. ISBN 0060390840. 


Old City of Jerusalem
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Neighborhoods of Jerusalem
The Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: Tefutzah, "scattered", or Galut גלות, "exile", Yiddish: tfutses), the Jewish presence outside of the Land of Israel is a result of the expulsion of the Jewish people out of their land, during the
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Jewish quarter is the area of a city traditionally inhabited by Jews. Jewish quarters were often the outgrowths of segregated ghettos. The Yiddish term for a Jewish quarter or neighborhood is "Di yiddishe gas" (Hebrew:
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Writing system: Alefbet Ivri abjad 
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Official language of:  Israel
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Jerusalem (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם   (help info ) , Yerushaláyim; Arabic:
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State Party  Israel
Type Cultural
Criteria ii, iii, vi
Reference 148
Region Europe and North America

Inscription History
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The Armenian Quarter is one of the four quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem. Although the Armenian people are Christians, the Armenian Quarter is distinct from the Christian Quarter.
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cardo or cardus was a north-south-oriented street in cities, military camps, and coloniae. Sometimes called the cardus maximus, the cardo served as the center of economic life. The street was lined with shops, merchants, and vendors.
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The Western Wall (Hebrew: הכותל המערבי, translit.: HaKotel HaMa'aravi), or simply The Kotel, is a retaining wall in Jerusalem that dates from the time of the Jewish Second Temple (516 BCE - 70 CE).
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Historical Jewish languages
Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, others
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Hebrew and Aramaic
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The vernacular language of the home nation in the Diaspora, significantly including English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and
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Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII
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The Arab Legion (al-Jaysh al-Arabī) was the regular army of Transjordan and then Jordan. The Arab Legion is not to be confused with the "Transjordan Frontier Force.
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Emirate of Transjordan was an autonomous political division of the Mandate for Palestine, created as an administrative entity in April 1921 before the Mandate came into effect in September 1923.
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Anthem
Hatikvah
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Capital
(and largest city) Jerusalem

Official languages Hebrew, Arabic
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Paratroopers are soldiers trained in parachuting and generally operate as part of an airborne force.

Paratroopers offer a tactical advantage as they can be inserted into the battlefield from the air, thereby allowing them to be positioned in areas not accessible by land.
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The Six-Day War (Arabic: حرب الأيام الستة, ħarb al‑ayyam as‑sitta
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Hebrew: האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים
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Dr. Nahman Avigad (1905-1992), born in Zawalow, Galicia (then Austrian, now in the western region of Ukraine), was an Israeli archaeologist.

He studied architecture in what is now the town of Brno, Czech Republic. Avigad emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1926.
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State Party  Israel
Type Cultural
Criteria ii, iii, vi
Reference 148
Region Europe and North America

Inscription History
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Jerusalem (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם   (help info ) , Yerushaláyim; Arabic:
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Christian Quarter is one of the four quarters of the ancient, walled Old City of Jerusalem, the other three being the Jewish Quarter, the Muslim Quarter and the Armenian Quarter.
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Christian Quarter is one of the four quarters of the ancient, walled Old City of Jerusalem, the other three being the Jewish Quarter, the Muslim Quarter and the Armenian Quarter.
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The Armenian Quarter is one of the four quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem. Although the Armenian people are Christians, the Armenian Quarter is distinct from the Christian Quarter.
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Muslim Quarter is one of the four quarters of the ancient, walled Old City of Jerusalem, the other three being the Jewish Quarter, the Christian Quarter and the Armenian Quarter.
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Muslim Quarter is one of the four quarters of the ancient, walled Old City of Jerusalem, the other three being the Jewish Quarter, the Christian Quarter and the Armenian Quarter.
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