Endnote 10 – The Aleppo Codex

Details for the following historical survey were from many sources. The general history of Aleppo owes much to Abraham Marcus, The Middle East on the Eve of Modernity: Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1989). For the picture of Jewish life, see also Raphael Patai, The Vanished Worlds of Jewry (New York, Macmillan, 1980), pp. 138–141; Elkan Nathan Adler, “Aleppo” Universal Jewish Encyclopedia (New York, 1939), vol 1, pp. 167–168; Eliyahu Ashtor, “Aleppo,” Encyclopaedia Judaica, vol. 2, cols. 562–564; Azriel Eisenberg, Jewish Historical Treasures (New York: Bloch, 1968), pp.78–79; Norman A. Stillman, The Jews of Arab Lands: A History and Source Book (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1979), pp. 105–107, 318–321.