#jews (greek)

[still-searching-for-something]

It's crazy to me that Kehila Kedosha Janina is the only Romaniote Jewish synagogue left in the entirety of the Western hemisphere, located in Manhattan. Romaniote Jews number some 57,000 worldwide, with 78% of them living in Israel. Romaniote Jews are not Sephardi or Ashkenazi, and constitute the oldest diaspora community in Europe, and have a presence in Greece dating to around 300 BCE, or around 2,300 years of recorded history. The Greek city of Thessaloniki is famous for having been a majority Jewish city for five centuries, the only such city in all of Europe.

I don't really know where I'm going with this, other than to note that it's sad how Kehila Kedosha Janina struggles to form a minyan every Shabbat, and that their distinct minhagim are being practiced less than ever. The history of the Jews in Greece is a fascinating one, and I feel it should get more attention and more life.

[jewishorchidist]

a sad story about a beautiful jewish culture; i recommend we all fall down this rabbit hole.

i think this is something we should spread awareness about as jews, because they aren’t the only ones who’s rich and unique traditions may be lost.

**EDIT: THIS ARTICLE IS FROM 2014

more recent wikipedia article

[bixels]

bit of an insane request but i love your au a lot and im hoping you have one palestinian-american character in it! im palestinian and i have family in america who have been there since the 1910/1920s. im unsure if you have any arab characters, but i suppose itd be fun?

I actually do have a character planned. Doctor Whooves is gonna be a Palestinian engineer and scientist who immigrated to America.

[adiradirim]

Sephardic Jews from Thessaloniki in their traditional costumes, in the city’s old cemetery, before the war // a contemporary photo that shows where the destroyed cemetery once was, which is now Greece's largest university, built partially on top of and with land and materials (particularly tombstones) stolen from the razed site.

Thessaloniki or Salonika, once referred to as “the Jerusalem of the Balkans” due to its Ladino-speaking Jewish majority, saw roughly 96% of its Jewish population murdered during the Holocaust. This mass destruction extended to the city's Jewish cemetery, which had been the country's largest, established in the 15th century and housing hundreds of thousands of Jewish graves until its razing by city authorities who had long desired to repurpose the land and resented the inconvenience of Jewish presence. Despite its large-scale destruction during German occupation in 1942, which was initiated and carried out primarily by Thessaloniki authorities with Nazi consent and arrangement, some parts of the cemetery survived intact as late as 1947. Many tombstones were subsequently appropriated and used by city authorities and the Greek Orthodox Church. After the war, people were still carrying away Jewish gravestones each day and regularly looting the cemetery in search of valuables. The city's officials, led by their mayor, completed the cemetery's destruction and sold the tombstones to contractors for use as building materials in various projects; as such many were and are still found in various walls, roads, structures, and churches around the city. A 1992 commemorative book pictures Greek schoolgirls playing Hamlet with skulls and other bones they found in the cemetery.

“[T]he ‘rape’ of the cemetery escalated, marble flooded the market, and its price plummeted. Jewish tombstones were stacked up in mason’s yards and, with the permission of the director of antiquities of Macedonia and overseen by the metropolitan bishop and the municipality, used to pave roads, line latrines, and extend the sea walls; to construct pathways, patios, and walls in private and public spaces though out the city, in suburbs such as Panorama and Ampelokipi, and more than sixty kilometers away in beach towns in Halkidiki, where they decorated playgrounds, bars, and restaurants in hotels; to build a swimming pool – with Hebrew-letter inscription visible; to repair the St. Demetrius Church and other buildings...” Devin Naar, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece

Most of the efforts to return found tombstones throughout the city are led by Jews, particularly Jacky Benmayor, the curator of the Jewish Museum and last Ladino speaker in Greece, who has personally recovered hundreds of tombstones including his own family's. Surviving Greek Jews never received compensation for the confiscation of the land under the destroyed cemetery, upon which now partially rests Greece's largest university, Aristotle University, which also used Jewish gravestones as building material for its long-coveted expansion finally made possible by the dispossession and annihilation of the city's Jews. In 2014, 72 years after the cemetery's destruction and appropriation, a small memorial was established on campus grounds to acknowledge the Jewish cemetery the school is built on and with; the ceremony just 10 years ago involved the first-ever acknowledgement of the atrocities and apology from a Thessaloniki mayor. The memorial has been vandalised multiple times since its establishment.

[leroibobo]

etz hayyim (“tree of life”) synagogue in chania, crete, greece. the building dates to the 14th-15th centuries, and was originally a venetian catholic church. it was acquired by chania's jewish community and converted into a synagogue in the late 17th century. chania's jews were deported due to the holocaust in 1944, after which the building remained abandoned until restoration in the 1990s.

romaniote jews are the oldest jewish community in europe and one of the oldest in the world, thought to have lived in and around present day greece since before 70 ce. they have their own liturgy that is unrelated to the more commonly used european ones (ashkenazic and sephardic).

[koenji]

Ketubah, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1863. Unknown Artist.

[the-ind1gen0us-jude4n]

Arabs are colonisers and should be labelled as such

[determinate-negation]

are you german?

no im just interested in german history…

[wiirocku]

Romans 1:16 (KJV) - For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

[kemetic-dreams]

The term Judaism derives from Iudaismus, a Latinized form of the Ancient Greek Ioudaismos (Ἰουδαϊσμός) (from the verb ἰουδαΐζειν, "to side with or imitate the [Judeans]"). Its ultimate source was the Hebrew יהודה, Yehudah, "Judah", which is also the source of the Hebrew term for Judaism: יַהֲדוּת, Yahadut.

The term Ἰουδαϊσμός first appears in the Hellenistic Greek book of 2 Maccabees in the 2nd century BCE (i.e. 2 Maccabees 2:21, 8:1 and 14:38) . 

In the context of the age and period it meant "seeking or forming part of a cultural entity" and it resembled its antonym hellenismos, a word that signified a people's submission to Hellenic (Greek) cultural norms. The conflict between iudaismos and hellenismos lay behind the Maccabean revolt and hence the invention of the term iudaismos.

[ace-hell]

Pro palestinians be like "DECOLONIZE BALESTINE" but then use every name for the land and cities besides the native ones

[rotzaprachim]

the crossovers in Mediterranean cultures in general make me so.

[notetaeker]

The reality of antisemitism is that it has always historically originated from and been maintained by the western powers. The only difference now is that no one is outwardly admitting it. It’s the reason we teach and learn about Anne Frank as kids in the US and don’t learn the fact that her and many other Jews were killed in the Holocaust because Europe and the US refused to take them because they were Jews.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

We Preach Christ Crucified

22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom; 23 But we proclaim Christ crucified. To the Jews it is a cause of offense, and to the Greeks it is foolishness; 24 But to those who are called--both Jews and Greeks--Christ is God's power and God's wisdom — 1 Corinthians 1:22-24 | A Faithful Version (AFV) Holy Bible, A Faithful Version © 2020 A Faithful Version. All Rights Reserved. Cross References: 1 Kings 13:3; Proverbs 8:1; Matthew 12:38; Luke 2:34; Luke 11:49; John 4:48; Romans 1:7; Romans 1:16; Romans 8:28; 1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 1:21; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Corinthians 2:2; 1 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Corinthians 4:10; Galatians 3:1

[sefarad-haami]

Documentos de identificación falsos utilizados por Salomon Levy mientras vivía escondido en Atenas durante la ocupación alemana.

La tarjeta fue emitida a nombre de George Perdikaris, identificado como miembro de la iglesia ortodoxa griega que nació en Esmirna, Turquía.

Derechos de autor: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Procedencia: Dora Levy Saltiel

[jewreallythinkthat]

I got fully spotted as "other" today while on holiday in Spain. The guy serving at the care took one look at me and went "Turkish?" And I was like ... "No? I'm British" and he gestured to his face and went "ahhh. You look Turkish"

Let's be clear, I do not "look Jewish" if you go by stereotypes. I'm not short, I'm quite stocky, I don't have a "Jewish nose🙄" but even most people I know immediately clock me as "other".

Jews are not fucking white.