History of the Jews in Turkey
The history of the Jews in Turkey covers the 2400 years that Jews have lived in what is now Turkey.
Sardis Synagogue was a section of a large bath-gymnasium complex that was in use for about 450–500 years.
A Krymchak, a Turkic-speaking Crimean Jew (Crimean Khanate, Ottoman Empire)
Ottoman Jewish wedding in 1904
A 1902 Issue of La Epoca, a Ladino newspaper from Salonica (Thessaloniki) during the Ottoman Empire
Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula. The term, which is derived from the Hebrew Sepharad, can also refer to the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa, who were also heavily influenced by Sephardic law and customs. Many Iberian Jewish exiled families also later sought refuge in those Jewish communities, resulting in ethnic and cultural integration with those communities over the span of many centuries.
Statue of the Sephardic rabbi, philosopher and physician Maimonides in Córdoba, Spain
Jewish Festival in Tetuan, Alfred Dehodencq, 1865, Paris Museum of Jewish Art and History
A 1902 Issue of La Epoca, a Ladino newspaper from Salonica (Thessaloniki)
19th-century Moroccan Sephardic wedding dress