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of world Jewry, hence its pilgrimage tradition. Dighet, the village in which the synagogue is location, is believed, through this story, to be a corruption of the Hebrew "דלת" (delet), meaning "door". The village was also, until the 20th century, populated exclusively by Cohanim. The first written record of the story dates back to 1849, in the book
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in 586 B.C. Further claims were made that a door from the destroyed Temple, as well as various stones from the building, were incorporated into the local Temple. The story has resulted in many Jews claiming that the Synagogue, as the sole intact synagogue with pieces of the First Temple, as a unifier
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The quantity of Jewish books printed in Djerba since the 20th-century establishment of the printing press has been remarked as exceptional. There are no less than 600 books published for a population that has never exceeded 4,500. The books were primarily intended for the local community, as well as
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on which are inscribed the names of deceased members of the community, along with candles lit in their memory. It is typically in synagogues, rather than cemeteries, where Djerbans recall the memory of deceased relatives. Some synagogues are surmounted by a drum with twelve windows symbolizing the
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The Jewish community of Djbera numbered 3,800 in 1926, and had gone up to 4,300 by 1946. If the growth had continued at the same rate as the general Tunisian population, the island would have had 15,000 Jews by the 1980s. However, by the second half of the 20th century, waves of emigration emptied
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Oral tradition of the Jews of Djerba, as well as the non-Jewish population of the island attest to the antiquity of the Jews in the community, with several founding legends that date the arrival of the Jews to the island in the B.C., although there is a lack of historical evidence to verify their
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carrying captives whose freedom was bought by the local community. One of them, "Isaac, son of Rabbi Sedaqa, captive among the captives of Djerba" presented himself freed from captivity in the first known document written by a Djerbian Jew, giving testimony about his time in bonage, writing from
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Juifs et musulmans en Tunisie: fraternité et déchirements; actes du colloque international de Paris, Sorbonne, organisé par la Société d'Histoire des Juifs de Tunisie et l'Université de Tunis I, 22 - 25 mars 1999 "Les relations judéo-musulmanes en Tunisie du Moyen Âge à nos jours, regards
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Djerba had as many as 20 synagogues for its peak population of 4,500. About one for every 100 worshippers, with women remaining absent from places of worship. There were still 17 in operation in the 1980s. A synagogue in Houmt Souk is named after its founders, the Parientes, a family of
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Prior to the introduction of the printing press to Djbera, the community had to import religious works via trading necessary for the study of Judaism. Hence, books were rare and expensive on the island. To publish their own works, they had to outsource printing to
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Jews from Italy. There are eleven others from Kbira named after rabbis, such as Rabbi Betsalel, Eliezer, and Brahem, or after their founding families (such as Dightiya from Sghira and trabelsiya from Tripoli). In Sghira, there are five synagogues that have
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The Jewish community on the island of Djerba is of particular interest to researchers, with traditions dating back to the time of the destruction of the First Temple. Two studies have attempted to test the antiquity of the community:
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A religious rivival of Judaism emerged in Djerba in the 18th century, as well as in Tripoli and Tunis. This intellectual revival, in tradition is attributed to three Moroccan rabbis who passed through on travel to
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successfully established a network of schools in Tunisia, the Jews of Djerba, in fear of secularization, refused to open an AIU school in their community, similar to their boycott of secular schools under the
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boxes hang on the wall, corresponding to various charities for the rabbis of Israel and the maintenance of schools. On the wings of the hekhal are silver plaques in the shape of a fish, a hand, and a
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As supported in Maimonides' quote, there was often a clash between religious groups due to characteristics of the Jewish community in Djerba, such as the existence of multiple rabbi-judges (
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Manni, Franz; Leonardi, Pascal; Patin, Étienne; Berrebi, Alain; Khodjet el Khil, Houssein; Skorecki, Karl; Rosengarten, Dror; Rouba, Hassan; Heyer, Evelyne; Fellous, Marc (2005-06-01).
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were founded by Kbirans. The divergent filtration implies that until reforms during Tunisian independence, religious jurisdiction was done independently of the other stud farm village.
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entrusted to a Djerbian merchant in exchange for linen. The name of a Jew from the island appears in a list dated to 1107 in a list of persons in need benefitting from
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There are also less popular legends that trace the Jewish community of Djerba to a period prior to the destruction of the First Temple, including one that states that
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into the synagogue during the annual pilgrimage, killing five people, two of whom were worshippers, before another National Guard member shot the shooter.
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Although there is still a community in Djerba in the 21st century, many mass departures have taken place since the 1950s, primarily to Israel, and some to
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other Jewish communities in southern Tunisia and the Maghreb. Some books were written by professional scholars, but many were written by regular artisans.
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trading with eastern lands. Other letters from the same timeframe showcase the role of Djerbian Jews in Mediterranean trade routes during the time of the
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present. Lucotte showed that 77.5% of the samples tested are haplotype VIII (similar to haplogroup J). The second showed that 100% of Jewish samples are
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There are often other smaller structures surrounding synagogues, often cemeteries. There are also sometimes libraries and study facilities nearby.
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Little information is available on the historical events that the community faced during the Middle Ages. Persecution of the
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The first concrete historical evidence of a Jewish community in Djerba dates to the 11th Century. A merchant letter from the
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and have alcoves where books are placed, and benches covered with a mat run along their length for study and rest. Closed
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wrote about the Jews in Djerba, giving the only description of the community's culture during the Middle Ages. He stated:
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are "annihilated in the fullness of exile". In the 13th century, there was a community of Djerba's Jews established in
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are like those of the children of the abomination, who are a nation among the nations that sojourn in the lands of the
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who reject the oral law. They totally lack clarity of mind, whether dealing with the Bible and Talmud or exhibiting
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The studies concluded that the paternal genetic heritage of the Jews on the island differed from the Arabs and
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Daughter communities of Djerba and other migrations of Djerbians forming an archipelago around the island
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where the Torah scrolls are kept. In the richer synagogues, the walls are covered with blue
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stems back to at least the Middle Ages, although many speculate that it extends back to the
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the community. The number of Jews in Djberba fell significantly in the coming decades.
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Many documents dated from the 12th Century document the raid of the island during the
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Tsur, Yaron (2003). Fellous, Sonia; Société d'histoire des Juifs de Tunisie (eds.).
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dated to 1030 refers to a Jewish man named Abū al-Faraj al-Jerbī (al-Jerbī meaning,
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were briefly mentioned in a Hebrew poem where it is stated that the communities of
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The community is typically divided between two villages on the Tunisian island of
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surmounted by a drum with twelve windows symbolizing the twelve tribes of Israel.
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The most common local origin story for the Jewish community in Djerba is that
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into the Ghriba synagogue compound, killing five people, four of them Jews.
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army, founded a community on the Island following maritime battles with the
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are sometimes held simultaneously. At the back of the covered room is the
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A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day
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The second was by anthropologist Franz Manni and his colleagues in 2005.
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claims. Yet, some traditions among the community give credence to a pre-
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Jewish presence on the island, such as their liturgical customs of the
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Moses Maimonides, Iggarot u-Sh'elot u-Techubot, Amsterdam, 1712, p.3a,
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The first was conducted by Gérard Lucotte and his colleagues in 1993.
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Jews can be found referenced in 18th century tax registeris of the
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was founded by miragnts from Shira, while the communities of
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Index


El Ghriba Synagogue
Classical Era
Arab world
Djerba
El Ghriba Synagogue
Counting of the Omer
establishment of the State of Israel
2002 Ghriba synagogue bombing
2023 Djerba shooting
Medieval
Kiddush
Passover
Prophets
Shabbat
Maccabees
Talmud
Yemen
Tafilalet
Cohanim
First Temple
Nebuchadnezzar II
Abraham Hayyim Adadi
Tripoli
Joab
King David's
Philistines
Zebulun
Second Temple
Cairo Geniza

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