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Urla
Urla is located 35 kilometres from Izmir. It is assumed that the town’s Jewish community originated on the Aegean islands of Mora and Izmir. In 1840, Urla’s Jewish community numbered 40 families, rising to 90 by 1900. At the end of the Turkish War of Independence, the Greeks, forced to leave Urla, set fire to the town, thus displacing the majority of the Jews. The community ...
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Turgutlu
Strategically located on the trade route between Sardis and Izmir, Turgutlu was home to a large Jewish community. Gravestones with Hebrew inscriptions dating back to 1391 have been found here. In the 19th century, there were three synagogues in Turgutlu. They were destroyed in the fire that ravaged the town in 1922. The synagogue that can be seen today dates from 1939, but is unoccupied due ...
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Priene
Compared with other cities, Priene was a modest town whose economic growth was always hindered by Miletus. During excavations carried out between 1895 and 1898, German archaeologists discovered the town’s synagogue (originally mistakenly described as a church). The wall faces Jerusalem and features a niche for the Torah and a marble basin. Three engravings depict citron, menorot and ...
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Tire
Tombstones with Hebrew inscriptions dating back to 1271 have been found in Tire’s old Jewish cemetery. The town’s hamam, which dates back to the 16th century, also houses a mikveh that was certainly built at the same time. The Jewish quarter and its three synagogues burnt down in 1917. Only the Kahal Shalom synagogue was rebuilt. It is no longer used as a place of worship and its ...
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Sardis
In Hellenistic times, Sardis was home to one of the largest synagogues in the world. It was discovered by American archaeologists in 1960. It was completely destroyed by an earthquake in 17 AD.
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Pergamon (Bergama)
Pergamon is one of the thirty districts of the province of Izmir. The city lies 93 kilometres north of Izmir. What is now known as Bergama was built on the remains of the ancient city of Pergamon. A Jewish community is known to have lived in Elaea, which was the port of Pergamum in Roman times and, from the second century BC, in the city centre itself. In Ottoman times, the Jewish residential ...
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Aphrodisias
During archaeological excavations in Aphrodisias, an ancient city listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, numerous inscriptions referring to a Jewish community were discovered. On three marble slabs, representations of menorot, citron trees, palm branches and shofarim were found. In the covered theatre of the Odeion, on one of the bleachers, is engraved “The place of the ancient ...
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Jewish community of Volos
Chatziargiri 51, Volos 383 33 Tel.: +30 2421025302 https://www.jcvolos.gr/indexeg.php
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Jewish cemetery of Athens
Ilioupoleos 1, Athina 116 36
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Ancient Jewish cemetery of Athens
Logginou 3, Athina 116 36 +30 21 0922 1621
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Exhibition “Stone Paths – Stories Set in Stone: Jewish Inscriptions in Greece”
Until October 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Greece This exhibition is actually a continuation of an exhibition that opened in 2022. The exhibition has been approved by the Ministry to be extended, allowing visitors to better understand the long and important Jewish history of Greece through the ancient monuments that evoke it. https://www.jewishmuseum.gr/en/28456
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Kahal Shalom Synagogue of Rhodes
Simmiou, Rodos 851 00, Greece Tel : 30-22410-22364 Homepage
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Museum of History of the Jews of Thessalonikí
Agiou Mina 13, Thessaloniki 546 24 +30 231 025 0406 http://www.jmth.gr/
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