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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 Jews were treated with suspicion by the Greek government; during the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, as a result of which Thessaloniki was annexed by Greece, the Jewish community had openly supported the former Ottoman rulers, and the arrival of Greek forces in the city had been followed by attacks on Jews and their property. [5]
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.
This is a list of Jewish communities in the North America, including yeshivas, Hebrew schools, Jewish day schools and synagogues. A yeshiva ( Hebrew : ישיבה) is a center for the study of Torah and the Talmud in Orthodox Judaism .
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It was built in memory of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki, which was almost completely destroyed during the Holocaust. It is named ain honour of Yehuda Leon Recanati . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The design is inspired by the seashells on the shores of the Greek city of Thessaloniki , which is the hometown of the wealthy Recanati family and the synagogue ...