Articles by Miriam Samsonowitz

The Nahmod-Cohen Story As told by Shulamit Gartenhaus


The circumstances that eventually brought my Syrian grandfather to the U.S. in the 1920s go back to the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. This great technological feat that tremendously expedited trade all over the world was the beginning of the end of Syria’s status as the trading crossroads of the world. Suddenly, commerce shifted to boats instead of passing through the famed Damascus and Aleppo trading centers. 


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