Regulations of the Sephardic community in Hebron and accompanying documents - 1937

Regulations of the Sephardic community in Hebron and accompanying documents - 1937

The regulations of the Sephardic community in Hebron - Shvat new moon 1937. Typewriting. Written and amended while there was not a single Jewish person left in the city of Hebron!

Among the regulations that appear: "The company's Palterin is temporarily in Jerusalem and will be transferred to Hebron when the Jewish community returns there, the company's goals are: ... to return to the Hebron community refugees who left due to time constraints and provide them with all their spiritual and religious needs. to elect a chief rabbi and reorganize the rabbinate and courts of justice ... to preserve the graves of the saints and other holy places in Hebron ... The members: Every Sephardic Jew over the age of 18 who is a resident of Hebron or was a resident of Hebron can be accepted as a member of society ... Once a year a general meeting of the company will convene ... ".

In 1927, the Ashkenazi and Sephardic communities were represented on a committee called the "General Committee of the United Hebrew Community in Hebron." The committee was chaired by Rabbi Meir Shmuel Kashmir and Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Slonim. The Av Beit HaDin of the last Sephardic community in Hebron until the riots of 1929 was the saint Rabbi Hanoch Hasson [1867-1929]. In the riots of 1929, Rabbi Hasson and his wife Clara were murdered in their home during the Hebron massacre. Three days after the massacre, the British authorities decided to eliminate the Jewish community in Hebron. The remains of the Jewish community in Hebron were moved to Jerusalem. The houses of the Jews were looted by the rioters. The Hadassah House was converted by the Arabs of Hebron into a girls' school, the Avraham Avinu synagogue was destroyed and a goat shed was built on it. The ancient Jewish cemetery was also desecrated and destroyed. The Jewish settlement in Hebron was renewed for a time in 1930 by 36 Sephardic families numbering about one hundred and sixty people. With the outbreak of the Great Arab Revolt in 1936 (the events of 1936-1939), the last Jews left the city (except for one family). In the specification of the regulations before us, a first attempt was made to return the Sephardic community to the city in the form of regulations for the future, when the Sephardic settlement returned to the city, which actually took place only after its re-occupation in the 1967 Six Day War.

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