Telling the story of Aramaic-speaking farmers in the Jordan Valley

25.04.2012                      03.Ijar. 5772                    Gefallenen-Gedenktag; Tag 18 des Omer

Kurdische Juden:

Telling the story of Aramaic-speaking farmers in the Jordan Valley

A center for Kurdish culture will illustrate a missing chapter in the history of agricultural settlement in Israel.

Travelers heading north through the Beit She'an Valley know many of the places linked to the area's fascinating past: Nir David and Gesher, built as tower and stockade settlements in the late 1930s; Beit Alpha, with its ancient synagogue mosaic. But who ever heard of Yardena?…