Of particular interest is the paradoxical statement: "From Tyre to Carthage the nations know Israel and their Father who is in heaven, but from Tyre westward and from Carthage eastward the nations know neither" (Men. The city is also mentioned in the Talmud. The *menorah is common, and some of the tombs are decorated with wall paintings. The majority of Jewish inscriptions from Carthage (discovered in a cemetery excavated near the city) show that the language of its Jews was Latin, although a few inscriptions are in Hebrew. Its existence is shown from inscriptions (mainly on tombstones) and from literary sources, especially those of the Church Fathers. Substantial Jewish settlement is known only from the time of the Roman Empire. There is no evidence of Jews in Carthage during the Punic period (before 146 B.C.E.) on the other hand, a number of modern scholars maintain that the expansion of the Phoenicians from Tyre and Sidon owed something of its impetus to the collaboration of Hebrews from the Palestinian hinterland. Virtual Jewish World| Modern Tunisian Jewry| DjerbaĬARTHAGE, ancient city in North Africa near the modern Tunis founded in the 9 th century B.C.E.
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