Tag Archives: Salonika

#EstaSemanaEnLaHistoriaSefaradi: Hoy se cumplen 81 años del Sábado Negro, donde 9.000 hombres judíos en #Salonika fueron obligados a reunirse en una plaza pública y fueron humillados bajo el sol abrasador y públicamente deshumanizados en 1942. Unos 2.000 hombres judíos fueron arrestados ese día y fueron enviados a campos de trabajos …

Pfizer’s brand-new Covid-19 vaccine, which has 90 percent effectiveness, has proven to be the biggest, most optimistic news by far in a year of mostly jaw-droppingly awful news. The much-anticipated discovery brought to the limelight the name of the pharmaceutical company’s Chairman and CEO, Albert Bourla. Dr. Bourla is a …

Today is Yom haShoah, the day we remember the murder of 6,000,000 Jews in the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators. Many historians repeat over and over again that had the State of Israel existed before 1939, more Jews could have migrated to the land of Israel, and millions …

Hoy es Yom haShoah, el día que recordamos el asesinato de 6.000.000 de judíos en manos de los nazis y sus colaboradores. Muchos historiadores repiten una y otra vez que si el Estado de Israel hubiese existido antes de 1939, más judíos podrían haber emigrado a la tierra de Israel …

Jewish youth on a sailboat in Salonika harbor, 1929, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Gabriel Albocher I learned a lesson when conducting research for my recently published book, “Family Papers: a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century.” I had discovered the story of a young Jewish man forgotten …

 A unique documentary on the holocaust of Greek Jewry. Once a great center of Sephardic life, Salonika’s Jewish community was almost entirely wiped out during the Holocaust. We visit the city, now called Thessaloniki in Greece, together with a group of young Jewish activists gathered by JDC, to pay tribute …

‘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 …

After their expulsion from Spain, many Jews found their way to the Ottoman empire, where they were apparently encouraged by local officials to settle in Salonica (now the Greek city of Thessaloniki). The city soon became home to one of the world’s largest and most important Jewish communities, which remained …

(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu honored the Greek Jewish community lost during the Holocaust at the dedication of a site to build a Holocaust museum in Salonika. Netanyahu, who is in Greece for a tripartite summit with that country and Cyprus, attended the dedication with Greek Prime Minister …

Seeing the  200 young Jewish adults, who came to Thessalonika from the Balkans for the JDC Gesher program, evoked a sense of the kind of Jewish energy that once made this city a magnet of Sephardic life Salonika, the name used historically for the city, was once a great center …

  Salonika: Female education at the end of the nineteenth century by Rena Molho From 1860, the Alliance Israélite Universelle took on the task of “regenerating” Eastern Jewish communities. Founded in Paris by a group of emancipated French Jews, the Alliance’s goal was to “offer effective support to those who suffer …

Dr. Guy Benveniste, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, donated a Hebrew manuscript and four photographs of his family in Salonika (today Thessaloniki, Greece) to The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life in 2012.   Fuente: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life