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Jewish family of Salonika in 1917. The history of the Jews of Thessaloniki reaches back two thousand years. The city of Thessaloniki (also known as Salonika) housed a major Jewish community, mostly Eastern Sephardim, until the middle of the Second World War.
The Jewish cemetery of Salonica was established in the late fifteenth century by Sephardic Jews fleeing the expulsion of Jews from Spain, [1] covered around 350,000 square metres (3,800,000 sq ft) [2] [3] and contained almost 500,000 burials.
The Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki (Greek: Εβραϊκό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης, Ladino: Museo Djudio de Salonik) is a museum in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. It displays the history of Sephardic Jews and Jewish life in Thessaloniki. The museum is being run by the Jewish community of the city.
Jewish family of Salonica in 1917. Although Jews were spread throughout the Ottoman Empire, the cities of Constantinople (Istanbul) and Salonica, also called Thessaloniki, had Jewish populations of about 20,000 Jewish people by the early 16th century. [17] Salonica was considered the main center of Jewish life in the Ottoman Empire.
Jason of Thessalonica (Greek: Ίάσων ό Θεσσαλονικεύς), also known as Jason of Tarsus, was a Jewish convert and early Christian believer mentioned in the New Testament in Acts 17:5–9 and Romans 16:21. Jason is venerated as a saint in the Orthodox and Roman Catholic traditions. His feast day is 12 July in the Roman Catholic ...
In the twelfth century, there were about 2,500 Jews in Constantinople, 2,000 Jews in Thebes and 500 Jews in Thessalonica. Halmyrus , Rhaedestus , Chios , and Rhodes each housed 400 Jews. [ 38 ] Also, there were about 300 Jews each in Corinth and Samos , and 200 Jews in Gallipoli .
Wanting to dilute Greek nationalism and weaken it, the Ottoman Emperor invited Jews to resettle in his territories, which included Salonica. In c. 1500, there were approximately 3,770 Jews, but by 1519, according to Ottoman archives, the population of Thessaloniki numbered 6,870 Muslims, 6,635 Christians, and 15,715 Jews, the last coming to ...
The Monastir Synagogue (Hebrew: קהל קדוש מונאסטירליס; Judaeo-Spanish: Kal de los Monastirlis) is a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue of the once vibrant Jewish community in Thessaloniki, Greece.