Sephardic Jews

Jewish Thessaloniki

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Jewish Thessaloniki

Jewish Thessaloniki is the memory of a Sephardic metropolis, the city that Jews expelled from Spain rebuilt on the Aegean and that generations of them called the Mother of Israel. For more than four centuries the community shaped the port, the trades, and the streets, spoke Ladino as its daily tongue, and made Thessaloniki one … Read more

The History of Thessaloniki

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The History of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki carries more than twenty-three centuries of history in its streets, from a Macedonian foundation named for a princess to a modern Greek metropolis on the Thermaic Gulf. The city has served as a Roman provincial capital, an imperial seat under Galerius, the second city of Byzantium, an Ottoman port, and the largest Sephardic Jewish … Read more