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In the resulting Greco-Italian War and the subsequent German invasion, many of Thessaloniki's Jews took part. 12,898 men enlisted in the Greek army; 4,000 participated in the campaigns in Albania and Macedonia; 513 fought against the Germans and, in total, 613 Jews were killed, including 174 from Salonika.
The Jewish cemetery of Salonica was established in the late fifteenth century by Sephardic Jews fleeing the expulsion of Jews from Spain, [1] covered around 350,000 square metres (3,800,000 sq ft) [2] [3] and contained almost 500,000 burials. [3] [4] The cemetery's expropriation was envisioned in the urban redevelopment plan following the 1917 ...
As of 2020, about 5,000 Jews live in Greece, mostly in Athens (2500), with less than 1,000 in Thessaloniki. The Greek Jewish community has traditionally been pro-European. Today the Jews of Greece are integrated and are working in all fields of the Greek state and the Greek society, such in the fields of economy, science and politics.
Wanting to dilute Greek nationalism and weaken it, the Ottoman Emperor invited Jews to resettle in his territories, which included Salonica. In c. 1500, there were approximately 3,770 Jews, but by 1519, 15,715 Jews came to form 54% of the city's population.
1927 (original); 1978, 2016 (reconstructions) Interior area. 260 square metres (2,800 sq ft) [1] The Monastir Synagogue ( Hebrew: קהל קדוש מונאסטירליס, Judaeo-Spanish "Kal de los Monastirlis") is a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue of the once vibrant Jewish community in Thessaloniki, Greece .
Thessaloniki was the 2014 European Youth Capital. The city's main university, Aristotle University, is the largest in Greece and the Balkans. [13] The city was founded in 315 BC by Cassander of Macedon, who named it after his wife Thessalonike, daughter of Philip II of Macedon and sister of Alexander the Great.
The Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki ( Greek: Εβραϊκό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης, Ladino: Museo Djidio 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 Thessaloniki . It is also known ...
Alma mater. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. University of Strasbourg. Occupation. Historian. Years active. 26. Rena Molho (born 1946) is a Greek historian who focuses on the different aspects of Ottoman and Greek Jewish history and culture and more specifically that of the Jews of Salonika .