Moises Elisaf (griego : Μωυσής Ελισάφ ; 17 de julio de 1954 – 17 de febrero de 2023) fue un internista, académico y político griego. Se desempeñó como alcalde de Ioannina desde septiembre de 2019 hasta su muerte en febrero de 2023, lo que lo convirtió en el primer alcalde judío de Grecia. Elisaf nació en Ioannina el …
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Exhibition: Romaniote Memories, a Jewish Journey from Ioannina, Greece to Manhattan: Photographs by Vincent Giordano
In 1999, photographer Vincent Giordano made an unplanned visit to the small Kehila Kedosha Janina (KKJ) synagogue on New York’s Lower East Side. He knew little about Judaism or synagogues, and even less about the Romaniote Jewish tradition of which KKJ, built in 1927, is the lone North American representative. …
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‘As you set out for your journey to Ithaca, hope that the road is long, full of adventure, full of discovery’ wrote C.P. Cavafy in his poem ‘Ithaca’. This is how we felt this summer in our journey to Greece, where the context and the content were close to our …
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