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Today, around 1,300 Jews live in Thessaloniki, [59] making it the second largest Jewish community in Greece after Athens. Israeli singer Yehuda Poliker recorded a song about the deported Jews of Thessaloniki, called 'Wait for me Thessaloniki'.
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 ...
Thessalonica is a city on the Thermaic Gulf, which at the time of Paul was within the Roman Empire. Paul visited Thessalonica and preached to the local population, winning converts who became a Christian community. [5] There is debate as to whether or not Paul's converts were originally Jewish.
The history of the city of Thessaloniki dates back to the ancient Macedonians. Today with the opening of borders in Southeastern Europe it is currently experiencing a strong revival, serving as the prime port for the northern Greek regions of Macedonia and Thrace , as well as for the whole of Southeastern Europe .
The collection of the museum was based on the documents, ritual objects, and photographic collections as well as the library that used to be housed at Vasileos Herakleiou 26, and was known as "The Center of the Course of Jewish history, in Thessaloniki" or "Center for the Jewish Studies of Thessaloniki" or "Jewish History Centre of Thessaloniki".
The rise of antisemitism can be seen throughout history as the scapegoating of a tiny but successful minority, representing just .2% of the world’s population, and rejection of Jewish values ...
With the importation of modern anti-Semitism with immigrants from the West later in the century, moreover, some of Thessaloniki's Jews soon became the target of Greek and Armenian pogroms, and antisemitic incidents elsewhere in Greece such as the Rhodes blood libel of 1840 reflected tensions between the empire's Greek and Jewish communities ...
Jewish history is the history of the Jews, their nation, religion, and culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions, and cultures. Jews originated from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah , two related kingdoms that emerged in the Levant during the Iron Age .