The history of the Jews in Greece can be traced back to at least the fourth century BCE. The oldest and the most characteristic Jewish group that has inhabited Greece are the Romaniotes, also known as
Ketubah from Greece
The wedding clothing of a Sepharadi Greek couple, ca. 19th century
Mosaic floor of a synagogue in Aegina, Greece, 300 CE
Paul of Tarsus by El Greco.
The history of the Jews of Thessaloniki reaches back two thousand years. The city of Thessaloniki housed a major Jewish community, mostly Eastern Sephardim, until the middle of the Second World War. S
History of the Jews in Greece
…Jews as a separate community from the Jews of Judaea, and the Jews of Greece did not participate in the First Jewish-Roman War or later conflicts. The Jews of Thessaloniki, speaking a dialect of Greek, and living a Hellenized existence, were joined by a new Jewish colony in the 1st century AD. The Jews of Thessaloniki…
Jewish family of Salonika in 1917
Fragment showing 1 Thessalonians 1:3–2:1 on Papyrus 65, from the third century CE.
Ruins of the Catalan Synagogue. Before 1905.
Sabbatai Zevi. Portrait by an eyewitness, Smyrna, 1666.