The Jewish Museum of Greece ( el, Εβραϊκό Μουσείο της Ελλάδος) is a
museum
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in
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...
,
Greece
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. It was established by Nicholas Stavroulakis in 1977 to preserve the material culture of the
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 pred ...
.
[Plaut, Joshua Eli, Greek Jewry in the Twentieth Century, 1913-1983; Patterns of Jewish survival in the Greek Provinces Before and After the Holocaust, Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 1996 p. 184]
Gallery
File:"Dedicated by the Municipality of Athens in memory of Colonel Mordochai Frizis" (8606784392).jpg, Plaque in memory of Mordechai Frizis at the Jewish Museum
File:The Jewish Museum of Greece (Athens) (8605704755).jpg, View of the interior
File:"Megillah", esther scroll, cast and engraved silver and silver gilt case, (8605734851).jpg, Megillah with cast and engraved silver-gilt case
File:Artifacts that Nazis took from Jewish people (8606881364).jpg, Artifacts that Nazis
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took from the local Jewish community
File:The Jewish Museum of Greece (Athens) (8606830918).jpg, Traditional clothing
See also
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Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki
The Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki ( el, Εβραϊκό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης, lad, Museo Djidio De Salonik) is a museum in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece presenting the history of Sephardic Jews and Jewish life in ...
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Jewish Museum of Rhodes The Jewish Museum of Rhodes ( el, Εβραϊκό Μουσείο της Ρόδου) is a museum located in the Old Town of the island of Rhodes, eastern Greece. It was established by Aron Hasson of the Rhodes Jewish Historical Foundation in 1997 to ...
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History of the Jews in Greece
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 pred ...
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Holocaust Museum of Greece
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Romaniote Jews
The Romaniote Jews or the Romaniotes ( el, Ῥωμανιῶτες, ''Rhomaniótes''; he, רומניוטים, Romanyotim) are a Greek-speaking ethnic Jewish community native to the Eastern Mediterranean. They are one of the oldest Jewish comm ...
References
External links
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City of AthensHellenic Ministry of Culture and TourismAmerican Friends of the Jewish Museum of GreeceJewish Museum of Rhodes
Museums in Athens
Jewish museums in Greece
Jewish Greek history
Museums established in 1977
Jews and Judaism in Greece
1977 establishments in Greece
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