Bayt Farhi, a Sephardic palace in Ottoman Damascus, begun c. 1780 an ARCHES video Speakers: Dr. Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Dr. Steven Zucker
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@pliniofreiregomes3 жыл бұрын
I had the chance to leave in Damascus for six magnificent years just before the war (2004-2010). Regretfully I never had the opportunity to visit Bayt Farhi. Thank you to let me do it now. Long live to the Syrian people! Long live to multiculturalism!
@habibhamdo133810 ай бұрын
هل انت من الشام يا اخي انا من الشام
@sylviacalabrese11523 жыл бұрын
Two grandparents and my father were born in this house.
@user-wv1uf7kl8b3 жыл бұрын
What is the connection between the totah family and the Farhi family in Damascus? Are you originally related to Moshe Eliyahu totah, who was the head of the Jewish community in Damascus in 1920. We have interesting information about the family from the end of the 19th century to the 30s of the twentieth century.
@maheryounesekh63843 жыл бұрын
Hello miss sylvia ! Is there any way to connect you plz I want to ask you about the house !plz reply! And thank u
@sylviacalabrese11523 жыл бұрын
I was mistaken, this is Bayt Farhi, belonged to my close cousins. Our family's house was Bayt Stambouli. Sorry, they look very much alike.
@mohamadnaseebaldabbas94733 жыл бұрын
@@sylviacalabrese1152 Beit Stanbuly is very similar to this house As a syrian I didn't know that it still exists untill I wachted a video of an syrian professor in damascene houses that talked about it Beit Istanbuli kzbin.info/www/bejne/iomWnWWNhc9sl7c Beit Lisbona kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHW6h41oit-GY80
@alihaydarnar9543 Жыл бұрын
You guys are awesome
@abbddos3 жыл бұрын
Generally, the Jewish quarter, or the Jewish alley, in Damascus included three groups of Jewish people. The Arab Jews, who originated from the area and they had typical Arab names. The Safardic Jews who fled the Spanish persecution during the 13th and the 14th centuries. They included families like Farhi, Lisbona... and yes, it literally means from Lisbon, Hanagid, Sbano and others. And finally the the Eastern European Jews, and they had families like Harrari, Cohen, Shemaya, Saloniki and others. Though the Farhi house was known as a wealthy man's house, it was not the most beautiful or the biggest, and there were other houses that were equally, if not more extravagant, like the Lisbona house and Shemaya house. The most famous Jewish house in Damascus could be Yusuf Umber house, which is oddly located outside the Jewish Alley. The Umber house is the biggest, and probably one of the most beautiful and most preserved houses in the old city. It is said that Yusuf Umber died without an heir, so according to the ottoman laws, the state inherited his property and converted it to a school, from which my grandmother graduated🙃🙃.. later on, when schools became abundant, the house was converted again as the administrative headquarters of the old city. There are many other houses in Damascus, inside and outside the old city that are vast and very beautiful to look at, like the house of Nizam, the house of Azm, not the Azm palace, and they are still there in the old city, and the house Sweid in Saruja, the houses of Nuri and Mousli(my mothers house when she was a child) in Midan that were knocked down in the 1970s. I myself lived in a traditional house in Midan, in the southern part of Damascus, outside the old city, and while it was beautiful in some ways, it was very expensive and exhausting to maintain the house, so we had to move out eventually. The high costs of maintaining traditional houses are forcing owners to either sell them or share them with investors to convert them into hotels or restaurants. The problem is that while investors like to take more "contemporary" approach to attract tourists and generate larger revenues, the surrounding environment in Damascus, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim is more religiously and socially conservative and do not approve that.
@gabrielab54538 ай бұрын
My great uncle, Albert Cameo, the president of the Syrian Jewish community was attempting to restore Beit Farhi, prior to his passing in 2022.
@brianwalsh95952 жыл бұрын
People should make architecture like that
@finnersmcspeed56463 жыл бұрын
I cannot imagine how much history has been lost to us due to the war. It is very unfortunate.
@iagonizante3 жыл бұрын
a beautiful building, i hope the syrian war will end soon
@incfankorean52713 жыл бұрын
Didn’t it end already?
@L-mo2 жыл бұрын
@@incfankorean5271 no it’s ongoing, at a lower level than 2015-18 but the situation remains critical, especially in specific places.
@incfankorean52712 жыл бұрын
@@L-mo oh ok
@fadiestifani83073 жыл бұрын
İf you are really intrested in Syrian Houses in Damascus you should see Al Zaytouna, Nassan, Shahrayar,Azm,Bet Jabri,Anbar Hotels and palaces
@archistudent61242 жыл бұрын
can I visit them now? if I go to the old city?
@ninja._.1050 Жыл бұрын
@@archistudent6124 Yes you can
@supremereader76143 жыл бұрын
You guys just keep getting better and better! Fascinating! Thank you 🙏
@AlaaH Жыл бұрын
Thankfully there are still plenty of Damscian homes that survived and hopefully more to be preserved and renovated in the future.
@HansDunkelberg1 Жыл бұрын
Irrespective of the faith of the owners, the houses here presented share a strong similarity to the ones of the ancient Romans. They have atria, mosaics on the floors, and a decoration dividing the walls into often rectangular fields while grandiose imagery of big lines is avoided. Frescoes from rooms in Pompeii or in Herculaneum appear as close cousins of the wall decorations shown from 2:52.
@alfatejpblind64989 ай бұрын
Exactly! This is why I love watching these damscene houses. Spanish Haciendas preserve the same roman design too. But of course, there are beautiful houses like this all over the mediterranean. The dream is to live in one of them one day…
@73m983 жыл бұрын
The part about reinvestment gave me hope
@carmelagillan98212 жыл бұрын
Hello to all of you, first time for me to see it, AMAZING History with personal stories. Huge Thank to Share with us. Bless you All 9.3.2022
@stardude33963 жыл бұрын
great video!
@Sasha0927 Жыл бұрын
I love seeing unity (of faiths, cultures, etc). Bonus for the bursts of color! When did it become common and expected that houses be just a few colors with white walls? I guess it gives us a blank template to decorate from, but why shouldn't the house itself be decorative? Anyway, this playlist lacks no good thing: houses, statues, carvings out of mountainsides, plates, etc. So much to learn. 🙂
@chrisk5651 Жыл бұрын
I knew a Christian from Iraq in the 1990s & she said that they also had carpeting on the floors which could be rolled up in warmer conditions so that bare feet on the bare stone floors would be cooler.
@YouTube_Enjoyerlol2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely beautiful architecture, both in Jewish and Islamic homes.
@brianpite08933 жыл бұрын
The courtyard reminded me of the story of Ben Hur. Beautiful lesson. Thanks
@marthavillegas62503 жыл бұрын
Beautiful! Thank you for this video. 💙
@gustavodamasceno42783 жыл бұрын
Fascinating!
@SelcukAskin3 жыл бұрын
Compare this with today’s tissue box architecture and instant simulacra tastes!
@Simonsays72583 жыл бұрын
Rich and powerful people today still own magnificent architecture. And poor people back then probably did live in tissue thin structures. Same difference.
@koksalceylan9032 Жыл бұрын
The Ottoman Civilization was fantastic an Great
@DJABranton9 ай бұрын
These are ancestors of mine!
@NKRAIEM2 жыл бұрын
Wow!
@maxmenaktas3 жыл бұрын
proud of my ancestors as a turk hope to see more of these beautiful videos! thanks for the great work x
@dylansh73 жыл бұрын
Syrians are not Turks 😐
@AlaaH Жыл бұрын
This has nothing to do with Turks. stay away please
@christofferraby471211 ай бұрын
In all fairness alot of these houses were built under Ottoman Turk rule but in Damascus there are some styles that were unique to Damascus originally.
@henriaho22713 жыл бұрын
2:26 🇱 🇪 🇬 🇴 𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎
@gallaxylhlovehope10513 жыл бұрын
I really love when people tried to rebuild old house in its original form but slightly different
@shahmuhammadaly Жыл бұрын
Morrocan Riads and mughal havelis are of the same architecture
@barfridman3 жыл бұрын
ברוך אתה בבאך וברוך אתה בצאתך בזה השער לא יבוא צער לא לזקן ולא לטף ולא לנער