The 1947 Aleppo pogrom refers to an attack against Aleppo

Aleppo

Aleppo is the largest city in Syria and the capital of Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. With an official population of 2,301,570 , expanding to over 2.5 million in the metropolitan area, it is also one of the largest cities in the Levant...

's Jews in December 1947, following the United Nations vote in favor of partitioning Palestine. The attack, a part of anti-Jewish wave of unrest across Middle East and North Africa, resulted in between 8 to 75 Jews killed and several hundred wounded. In the aftermath of the pogrom, half the city's Jewish population had abandoned the city.

History

The Jews of Aleppo had suffered a previous pogroms in 1853 and 1875. After the United Nations vote on November 29, 1947, in favor of the partition of Palestine, the Arab inhabitants of Aleppo rioted against the town's Jewish population, which at the time numbered around 10,000. While the exact number of those killed remains unknown, estimates of those killed range from 8 to 75. Several hundred were wounded. Ten synagogues, five schools, an orphanage and a youth club, Jewish shops and 150 houses were set ablaze and destroyed. Damaged property was estimated to be valued at $2.5m. The community subsequently went into decline and soon after, half the city's Jewish population had left. During the pogrom the Crown of Aleppo

Aleppo Codex

The Aleppo Codex is a medieval bound manuscript of the Hebrew Bible. The codex was written in the 10th century A.D.The codex has long been considered to be the most authoritative document in the masorah , the tradition by which the Hebrew Scriptures have been preserved from generation to generation...

was damaged and lost.