Kether Torah Synagogue Of Sousse
History
The city of Sousse has had a large Tunisian Jewish community dating from the Punic period. An 1853 census counted 400 Jewish families in Sousse.
It is in this context that Keter Torah Synagogue was built in 1913 at the initiative of Yossef Guez, Chief Rabbi of Sousse and the first native Tunisian Chief Rabbi. The synagogue is the main synagogue in the city.
In 1946, the Jewish community in Sousse numbered 3,500 but continued to decrease. As of 2006, there were 36 Jews left in Sousse. Sousse once had six synagogues, today only Keter Torah is operational.
On December 6, 2019, the National Heritage Institute of Tunisia announced that the synagogue was placed on the list of heritage sites of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
See also
References
- ^ "Synagogue Keter Torah, Sousse, Tunisia". archive.diarna.org. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
- ^ Walid Mejri (February 25, 2015). "Yves Eliahou, gardien du trésor des juifs en Tunisie". inkyfada.com (in French). Archived from the original on November 10, 2018. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
- ^ "Les juifs de Sousse: Histoire, origine, communauté, synagogues". Tunisie Généalogie (in French). May 19, 2018. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
- ^ "Trois monuments tunisiens inscrits sur la liste définitive du patrimoine civilisationnel dans le monde islamique". webmanagercenter.com (in French). December 7, 2019. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
Bibliography
- Bismuth-Jarrassé, Colette; Jarrassé, Dominique (2010). Synagogues de Tunisie : monuments d'une histoire et d'une identité. Patrimoines (in French). Le Kremlin-Bicêtre: Esthétiques du divers. pp. 276–278. ISBN 978-2-9533041-2-1.
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