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Recorded Jewish presence in Greece dates back over 2,300 years to the time of Alexander the Great. [3] The earliest reference to a Greek Jew is an inscription dated c. 300–250 BCE , found in Oropos , a small coastal town between Athens and Boeotia , which refers to "Moschos, son of Moschion the Jew", who may have been a slave .
Greek Jews today largely "live side by side in harmony" with Christian Greeks, according to Giorgo Romaio, president of the Greek Committee for the Jewish Museum of Greece, [7] while nevertheless continuing to work with other Greeks, and Jews worldwide, to combat any rise of anti-Semitism in Greece. Currently the Jewish community of Greece ...
The Jewish Museum of Greece (Greek: Εβραϊκό Μουσείο της Ελλάδος) is a museum in Athens, Greece. It was established by Nicholas Stavroulakis in 1977 to preserve the material culture of the Greek Jews. [1] The museum displays the 2,300 years of Greek Jewish history through the material artifacts in its possession.
Flag of the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the Crusades: 1187-1291: Flag of the Ayyubid Dynasty: 1291-1516 [1] Flag for the Mamluk Dynasty: 1516-1920: Flag of the Ottoman Empire: 1897–1898: Flag of the First and Second Zionist Congress: 1919–1921: First Judeans Regiment of Jewish Legion flag: 1924–1926: House flag of American Palestine Line ...
Jasón, a Jewish archer on the prow of a pirate ship (a painting from Jason's Tomb). Jewish pirates were Jewish people who engaged in piracy.While there is some mention of the phenomenon in antiquity, especially during the Hasmonean period (c. 140–37 BCE), most Jewish pirates were Sephardim who operated in the years following the Alhambra Decree of 1492 ordering the expulsion of Iberia's Jews.
In 1828 it was discontinued, as it was decided that the cross-and-stripes naval flag (today's national flag) should be flown by both military and merchant ships. Blue flag with an inverse state flag on the canton (Blue cross on white field). 1833–1858: War ensign at sea during most of the reign of King Otto, adopted in 1833. [7]
A decades-long court battle over a famous painting that was looted from a Jewish family by the Nazis at the dawn of World War II took a devastating turn for the family Tuesday, when a federal ...
The Synagogues of Greece: A Study of Synagogues in Macedonia and Thrace: With Architectural Drawings of all Synagogues of Greece. KDP, 41-92 and 181-189. ISBN 979-8-8069-0288-8; Naar, Devin E. (2016), Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-9887-7. Saltiel, Leon, ed. (2021).