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[49] [50] As of 2020, about 5,000 Jews live in Greece, mostly in Athens (2500), with less than 1,000 in Thessaloniki. [51] The Greek Jewish community has traditionally been pro-European. [49] 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 ...
Today approximately 4,500 to 6,000 Jews remain in Greece. Of these, only a small number are Romaniotes, who live mainly in Thessaloniki, Ioannina, Chalkis and Athens. About 3,500 Jews now live in Athens, while another 1,000 live in Thessaloniki. [72] A mixed community of Romaniote and Apulian Jews still lives on the Island of Corfu. [73]
In 2010, the front of the Jewish Museum of Greece was defaced, for the first time ever. [13] In 2010 the old Etz Hayyim Synagogue in Hania, one of the most noted Jewish temples in Greece, was set alight twice and 2500 rare books and manuscripts were destroyed. In 2011 arsonists attacked Corfu synagogue at the start of the Jewish Passover holiday.
The Greek-speaking Romaniotes are the oldest Jewish community in Europe, [1] dating back possibly as far as the sixth century BCE. [2] Many Judeo-Spanish-speaking Sephardim settled in the Ottoman Empire, including areas that are now Greece, after their expulsion from Spain and Portugal at the end of the fifteenth century.
The Jewish Museum of Greece (Greek: Εβραϊκό Μουσείο της Ελλάδος) is a museum in Athens, Greece. It was established by Nicholas Stavroulakis in 1977 to preserve the material culture of the Greek Jews. [1] The museum displays the 2,300 years of Greek Jewish history through the material artifacts in its possession.
The Synagogue in the Agora of Athens is an ancient former Jewish synagogue, that was located in the Ancient Agora of Athens, in modern-day Greece.. During an excavation in the summer of 1977, a piece of Pentelic marble apparently once part of a curvilinear frieze over a doorway or niche was discovered a few meters from the northeast corner of the Metroon. [1]
The Jewish population reacted by siding with the Greek monarchists during the Greek National Schism (opposing Eleftherios Venizelos, who had the overwhelming support of refugees and the lower income classes). This would set the stage for a 20-year period during which the relationship of the Jews with the Greek state and people would oscillate ...
The Etz Haim Synagogue (Hebrew: בית כנסת עץ חיים) is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at Melidoni Street 8, in the Thiseio area of Athens, Greece. The synagogue was completed in 1904 by Greek Romaniote Jews [ 1 ] who came from Ioannina , and for this reason it is also called the "Romanian" or "Yannonian ...