Greece

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GREECE. Jewish settlement in Greece dating back to the 2nd century B.C.E. Documents of the 12th and 13th centuries indicate Jews were noted for their silk and dyeing industries. Greek Jewry flourished in the 14th and 15th centuries, producing many renowned rabbis and Talmudic scholars. Salonika, which became part of Greece in 1912, was a center of Sephardic Jewry. In the late 19th century, 80,000 of its 120,000 Ladino-speaking inhabitants were Jewish. The massacres and deportations during the Nazi occupation of Greece in World War II virtually annihilated the Jewish community, which dwindled from 75,000 in 1939 to about 5,000 in 2007.

Synagogues

Beth Shalom 5, Melidoni St. Athens Tel: 30 210 3252 875

Chabad of Athens 5 Averof Street Athens Chabad Lubavitch http://www.chabad.gr/

Romaniote Synagogue 8, Melidoni St. Athens

Chalkis Synagogue 35 Kotsou St. Chalkis Tel: 30 22210 601 11

Corfu Synagogue Velissariou St. Corfu Tel: 30 26610 477 77

Etz Hayyim Synagogue 730 11, Hania Crete Hellas http://www.etz-hayyim-hania.org/

Ioanina Synagogue 16, Ioustinianou St. Ioanina Tel: 30 26510 251 95

Jewish Museums

Jewish Museum of Greece Nikis 39, Athens 105 57 http://www.jewishmuseum.gr/?langid=2

Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki 13 Agiou Mina Street, 546 24 Thessaloniki, Greece http://www.jmth.gr/index.html