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The New Testament describes Greek Jews as a separate community from the Jews of Judaea, and the Jews of Greece did not participate in the First Jewish-Roman War or later conflicts. The Jews of Thessaloniki, speaking a dialect of Greek, and living a Hellenized existence, were joined by a new Jewish colony in the 1st century AD.
On the island of Crete, the Jews historically played an important part in the transport trade. In the centuries following 1492 most of the Romaniote communities were assimilated by the more numerous Sephardim. Colonel Mordechai Frizis (1893–1940) from the ancient Romaniote Greek Jewish community of Chalkis [28] with his wife Victoria.
The Etz Hayyim Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת עץ חיים) is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Chania on the island of Crete, in Greece. [2] Constructed as a church, the building was converted into a synagogue in the 17th century. It is the only surviving remnant of the island's Romaniote Jewish community.
In the Greek cities in the east of the Roman empire, tensions often arose between the Greek and Jewish populations. Writing around 90 AD, the Jewish author Josephus cited decrees by Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Augustus and Claudius, endowing Jewish communities with a number of rights. [9]
Large numbers of Jews lived in Greece (including the Greek isles in the Aegean and Crete) as early as the beginning of the 3rd century BCE. The first recorded mention of Judaism in Greece dates from 300 to 250 BCE, on the island of Rhodes. [12] In the wake of Alexander the Great's conquests, Jews migrated from the Middle East to Greek ...
Meanwhile, the Kitos War, a rebellion by Jewish diaspora communities in Roman territories in the Eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamia, led to the destruction of Jewish communities in Crete, Cyprus, and North Africa in 117 CE, and consequently the dispersal of Jews already living outside of Judea to further reaches of the Empire. [57]
The book is a scholarly investigation of how Jewish communities in Roman-ruled territories engaged with the institution of the public bathhouse. Written by Yaron Z. Eliav and published by Princeton University Press in 2023, the book analyzes a wide range of evidence—literary, archaeological, and historical—to explore how Jews participated in, adapted to, and occasionally resisted this ...
Josephus claimed the Jewish messianic prophecies that initiated the First Jewish–Roman War made reference to ... a Greek Jewish woman from Crete, who was a member ...