Greek Jewry

Posted: Thu, Oct 23 2008, 2:39 pm Post subject: Greek Jewry

Here are many very interesting links about Greek Jewry (Sefardic & Romaniote as well as tiny Ashkenazic & Italki communities in some places).

Posted out of the Sefardi circle so everyone can enjoy.

great website: http://www.yvelia.com/kolhakehila/
the only Jewish genealogy page that specializes in Greece as far as I know http://www.yvelia.com/kolhakehila/names/index.htm
by city and town: http://www.yvelia.com/kolhakehila/jewish_sites/index.htm
archives: http://www.yvelia.com/kolhakehila/archive/index.htm
Jewish youth in Athens: http://www.yvelia.com/kolhakehila/archive/documents/jewish_youth/tradition_001.htm
"the Jerusalem of the Balkans": http://www.yvelia.com/kolhakehila/archive/sites/salonika/salonika_syn_exhib_yad_vashem_006.htm
Greek Jews and descendants, out of Greece: http://www.yvelia.com/kolhakehila/archive/documents/israel/gr_in_israel_001.htm
Greek Jews in America: http://www.yvelia.com/kolhakehila/archive/documents/usa/usa_baltimore_003.htm
clear and short, with pictures: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Greece.html
Balkan Jews: http://www.jewishgen.org/Sephardic/turkey_sites.htm

more general (a classic): http://www.sephardim.com/

Jewishencyclopedia is also useful - bear in mind parts of Greece were in Turkey less than a century ago...

If anyone has been there, or has origins or interest, feel free to add more. I may be going for a cousin's bar mitzva this summer, so I'm even more on the topic!

Wouldn't it also be nice if anyone from/knowledgeable about a "rarer" country posted about it?
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Posted: Fri, Nov 21 2008, 9:50 am Post subject: re: Greek Jewry

Posted: Fri, May 25 2012, 11:57 am Post subject: re: Greek Jewry

Infos on the Salonikan kehila:

They apparently have several shtiblech in NY. I don't know which ones are still opened.

Museum and retirement home in Israel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUoJhHQyjtc
page: http://www.facebook.com/rhc.saloniki
shul: Heichal Rabi Haim Haviv se trouve 126, Allenby Street a Haifa

To visit or have more infos, contact Mrs Gila Hadar (number in pm) at SALONIKA AND GREECE JEWRY HERITAGE CENTER

http://www.heritage-center.org.il/Dynamic.aspx?P=56424

http://www.e-mymuseum-saloniki.com/