Veria’s Jews are said to have heard the gospel directly from Paul himself, documenting his visit, says one legend, on a long-lost Torah scroll. But by the time the Nazis were defeated, this 2,000-year-old community was extinct David B. Green The interior of the synagogue in Veria, Greece.Courtesy of Evi …
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History and Life of the Jewish Community of Veria, Greece | Book (English & Hebrew)
Veria is a city in Central Macedonia, northern Greece, capital of the regional unit of Imathia. Under the Byzantine Empire Berrhoea continued to grow and prosper, developing a large and well-educated commercial class (Greek and Jewish) and becoming a center of medieval Greek learning. The 17th-century traveller Evliya Çelebi reports …
Read More »Thread of Memory: Jews of Veria Holocaust remembrance events
As part of last month’s Holocaust Memorial in Veria, Central Macedonia, an estimated 2000 people attended The Thread of Memory, in memory of the 460 members of Veria’s Jewish Community who perished in the Nazi Death Camps. The Thread of Memory was a three-day program of events culminated with an …
Read More »La boz de Yehuda: LA BALADA POR VERIA por Yehuda Hatsvi
Ver todos los artículos de esta sección LA BALADA POR VERIA Yehuda Hatsvi Asher Amado, mi amigo, viajo en Septembre 2018 a Gresia. Lo mas, naturalmente, se intereso en la vida de los judios ke biven en este payis. Aki, amigos, vos traigo la poezia ke eskrivio Asher Amado despues …
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