DEHOK

DEHOK
DEHOK (Dihok), a town in the Iraqi part of Kurdistan. According to the official census of 1930, there were 843 Jews in the entire Dehok region. Their language was the aramaic spoken in the mountains, Jabalī. They were farmers, artisans, and weavers. The ḥakhamim who headed the community included Joseph b. Isaac, who in 1888 completed a book of homilies, and the kabbalist ḥakham Elijah Abraham Mizraḥi, who translated Kurdish-Aramaic poems into Hebrew. When the State of Israel was established, the entire community migrated there. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: A. Ben-Jacob, Kehillot Yehudei Kurdistan (1961), 56f.; Brawer, in: Minḥah le-David (1935), 248; Rivlin, in: Zion Me'assef, 4 (1930), 109–21. (Abraham Haim)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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