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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 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.
The consecration by the locum tenens Chief Rabbi of Thessaloniki, Haim Raphael Habib, took place on September 24, 1927 (Eloul 27, 5687). Families fled Monastir during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and World War I and established themselves in Thessaloniki creating their own kehila (community) within the greater Jewish Community.
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 form 54% of the city's population.
Thessaloniki had been a centre of Greek Judaism for centuries, and Jews remained the largest ethnic group in the city until around 1912. [3] Most of the Jewish population were Sephardic speakers of Ladino, which was widely spoken as a lingua franca in the city until the 1910s. [4]
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The Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki contains some monumental stones and inscriptions with photographs showing the cemetery and visitors as it was in 1914. The Jewish community never received compensation for the confiscation of the land under the cemetery, [22] valued in 1943 at 1.5 billion drachmas. [10] [23]
Unspooling in six fragmented chapters, the film tells the story of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community from the first half of the 20th c ‘The City and the City’ Tells Untold Stories of ...