Kfar Bar'am, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kfar Baram (Hebrew: ), also Kafr Bir'im or Kafar Berem, is the site of an ancient Jewish village in Northern Israel, 3 kilometers from the Lebanese border. An ancient Hebrew inscription from one of the village synagogues reads: "Peace be upon the place, and on all the places of Israel." The name is often assumed to mean "Son of the People," incorporating the Aramaic word bar , meaning "son" and the Hebrew word am meaning "people". However, if like at Shfar'am, both elements are Hebrew, the name could derive from a literary Hebrew word indicating cleanliness, purity, pristineness and wholesomeness - "The wholesome people" or "wholesomeness of the people". In modern Hebrew, is most commonly used in phrases to indicate "wilderness" or "nature". Bar'am was an ancient Jewish village. At an unknown point following the Arab conquest but before the thirteenth century, Jews left the village. By the nineteenth century the village was entirely Christian. A church on the site , the Maronite church, is maintained but is open only on holidays. Kafr Bar'am was badly damaged in the Galilee earthquake of 1837.