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As of 2018, Greater Cleveland is the 23rd largest Jewish community in the United States. [2] As of 2023, the Cleveland Jewish Community is estimated to be about 100,000 people. In 2012, the Jewish Population in Greater Cleveland was estimated at 80,800. [3]
The Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 was a disaster for the community. The Jewish community was concentrated in the lower part of town and was thus the one most affected: the fire destroyed the seat of the Grand Rabbinate and its archives, as well as 16 of 33 synagogues in the city. 52,000 Jews were left homeless. One effect of the great fire ...
The fire severely damaged the economic position of Thessaloniki's traditionally strong Jewish community. During the 1920s, the Jews became politically isolated, and were held responsible by the Venizelist political faction for both the Venizelists' defeat in the 1920 Greek legislative election and the Greek defeat in the Greco-Turkish War of ...
The dome of Park Synagogue's former Cleveland Heights building, designed by Erich Mendelsohn, since vacated.. The following summer, in 1943, a day care and nursery school began functioning there, and an adjacent lot of 21 acres (8.5 ha) was purchased from John D. Rockefeller - thus forming a magnificent property with a creek and ravine running through it.
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.
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 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]
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