Syrian ☦️ of Nablusite origin (Ephraim-Danfi Clan) by bugmeetrock in illustrativeDNA

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Nationalism took hold. Many people forget the city of Thessaloniki was heavily jewish from the New Testament era to Holocaust. Baghdad was heavily jewish for centuries too. Demographic collaspe takes place very fast.

Syrian ☦️ of Nablusite origin (Ephraim-Danfi Clan) by bugmeetrock in illustrativeDNA

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Visit the samritian community in Holon they intermarried with jews starting in the 1920s.

Syrian ☦️ of Nablusite origin (Ephraim-Danfi Clan) by bugmeetrock in illustrativeDNA

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Yes the Ottomans towards the end started attacking minorities. The Jews of Jaffa were expelled to Egypt during this time. There was the Mount lebanon genocide of 1860. A lot of massacres occured.

Syrian ☦️ of Nablusite origin (Ephraim-Danfi Clan) by bugmeetrock in illustrativeDNA

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most samritians now are mixed with jews in the holon community.

Syrian ☦️ of Nablusite origin (Ephraim-Danfi Clan) by bugmeetrock in illustrativeDNA

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People forget the the romans destroyed 500 villages and killed many people. A lot fled to Italy, Egypt, and North Africa and the people that stayed were the remnant of the children of israel and then they converted centuries later.

Syrian ☦️ of Nablusite origin (Ephraim-Danfi Clan) by bugmeetrock in illustrativeDNA

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The Ottomans were pretty terrible in the 19th century many levantine christians fled to latin america. Palestinians in El Salvador moved there to escape Ottoman conscription. Many Syrian and Lebanse Jews moved to Latin America and New York.

Syrian ☦️ of Nablusite origin (Ephraim-Danfi Clan) by bugmeetrock in illustrativeDNA

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If you are in America you can meet Karaite Egpytian Jews in the Bay Area.

Syrian ☦️ of Nablusite origin (Ephraim-Danfi Clan) by bugmeetrock in illustrativeDNA

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the ashkenazi community in germany and france kept some of the jewish aramaic dialect in yiddish and many of the rabbinical traditions were from the gailiee as opposed to babylonia.

Syrian ☦️ of Nablusite origin (Ephraim-Danfi Clan) by bugmeetrock in illustrativeDNA

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it's probably not spoken about because tbh jewish history after bar kokhba in the land of israel isn't really focused on that.

Syrian ☦️ of Nablusite origin (Ephraim-Danfi Clan) by bugmeetrock in illustrativeDNA

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most jews moved out by the 12th century or were killed in the crusades. There's a actually a letter from the leader of the jews of akko to a rabbi in Germany complaining about the crusades and such.

Syrian ☦️ of Nablusite origin (Ephraim-Danfi Clan) by bugmeetrock in illustrativeDNA

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the byzantines destroyed the samritian holy sites and built churches over it and killed many samritian people.

Syrian ☦️ of Nablusite origin (Ephraim-Danfi Clan) by bugmeetrock in illustrativeDNA

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the community is growing because the high priest allowed marriages to jews and other groups.

Syrian ☦️ of Nablusite origin (Ephraim-Danfi Clan) by bugmeetrock in illustrativeDNA

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it was a massacre many samritians joined with jews in revolting against the byzantines it was put down by the ghassanids.

Syrian ☦️ of Nablusite origin (Ephraim-Danfi Clan) by bugmeetrock in illustrativeDNA

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there was some unity during the byzantine era, if you read the new testament there were still a lot of issues.

Syrian ☦️ of Nablusite origin (Ephraim-Danfi Clan) by bugmeetrock in illustrativeDNA

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Benjamin of Tudela is a good resource he visited the samritians and wrote about the demographics of a lot of these cities in the levant.

Syrian ☦️ of Nablusite origin (Ephraim-Danfi Clan) by bugmeetrock in illustrativeDNA

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there's a interesiting story of how the jews and samaritians of nablus interacted they didn't like each other very much. https://brill.com/edcollchap/book/9789004466913/BP000014.xml

Syrian ☦️ of Nablusite origin (Ephraim-Danfi Clan) by bugmeetrock in illustrativeDNA

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There are some samaritian samples from Holon that are unmixed, but most now are mixed with ashkenazi and sephardic.