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syrian, my immediate family starts events on time – my extended family stars 30-60 minutes late on the non-yekke side and on time on the yekke side.
Wow, 2 hours. Sheesh! I could never handle that. I hate when you got a wedding and the chupah starts an hour late – 2 hours would drive me bonkers.
Lol if the invitation says 6 we don’t go until 8. I didn’t mean we WAIT at the chupah for 2 hrs lol
I could never understand why Syrians have the “minhag” of taking the time on an invitation to mean two hours LATER? Then again, in order to get my dad O”H ANYWHERE on time, we always had to tell him it was two hours earlier…
Lol that’s exactly why it says it!! Bc syrians r ALWAYS late lol
Perhaps the Syrians learnt it from the Chasidim?
joseph, i’m not exactly a genius, but which time period was that? they didn’t exactly cross each other til like 50 years ago. probably less.
Correct moish
when did syrians first come to america anyway? i’m guessing chasidim came after WW2.
I think after the 20s…..not sure I think maybe alot after that…really don’t no
1st batch that we are aware of came 1918…then they trickled on through later, then there was another wave in the 70’s. final group of syrian that emigrated to US were syrians from damascus in the 90’s….a sprinkling of sy’s came through in the interim most via other countries…Israel, Argentina, Mexico.
Mchemtob: the 70s???? WAY before!!! A wave of them came like in the 50s!! 70s is late
BS”D
Sorry I did not get around to the post about Ashkenazim of Sefardi heritage – hope to do it on Thursday if not next Sunday.
Wasn’t there a huge wave of Jews from Egypt in 1956 when Nasser YMS took over? Most Egyptian Jews are from Halab or from other parts of the Ottoman Empire originally. Cairo and Alexandria were very welcoming places for Jews and foreigners until Arab nationalism took over.
itzik egyptian jews are not from halab. thats syrians. halab is syria
Maybe. But that’s not true either way…
50/60’s were not massive waves from syria they were egypt, iraq, etc… yes sy’s came in 50’s and 60’s but not a huge emigration it was more like individual families. That emigrated or escaped. cause we were not really allowed out because of fighting with israel.
BS”D
Ames – yes that is what I mean. Isn’t it partially true? For instance the famous pre-Nasser department stores in Cairo were owned by the Douek and Ades families who originated in Halab.
What mchemtob said is correct
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