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Tal Shachar
Tal Shahar ( he, טַל שַׁחַר, ''lit.'' Dawn Dew) is a moshav in central Israel. Located between Gedera and Latrun, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In , it had a population of . History The village was established in 1948 by aliyah, immigrants from Greece, Poland and Turkish Jews in Israel, Turkey on the Burma Road (Israel), Burma Road on agricultural lands that had belonged to the List of villages depopulated during the Arab-Israeli conflict, depopulated Palestinians, Palestinian Arab village of Khirbat Bayt Far, in order to prevent Jerusalem being separated from the rest of Israel. Tal Shahar It was named after Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (Morgentau is German language, German for Morning Dew). References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Jews
The history of the Jews in Greece can be traced back to at least the fourth century BCE. The oldest and the most characteristic Jewish group that has inhabited Greece are the Romaniotes, also known as "Greek Jews." The term "Greek Jew" is predominantly used for any Jew that lives in or originates from the modern region of Greece. Aside from the Romaniotes, a distinct Jewish population that historically lived in communities throughout Greece and neighboring areas with large Greek populations, Greece had a large population of Sephardi Jews, and is a historical center of Sephardic life; the city of Salonica or Thessaloniki, in Greek Macedonia, was called the "Mother of Israel."Samuel Usque, The Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, p. 1 Greek Jews played an important role in the early development of Christianity, and became a source of education and commerce for the Byzantine Empire and throughout the period of Ottoman Greece, until suffering devastatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
