The Synagogues of Greece by Elias Messinas

Larisa

Longitudinal section of Etz HaHayim Synagogue in Larisa. Looking east towards the heikhal. The Jewish community center is to the right. (Elias V. Messinas Architect)

Cross section of Etz HaHayim Synagogue in Larisa. Looking south towards the arched openings of the original ezrat nashim on the second floor. The heikhal is to the left, the bimah in the center, and the main entrance is to the right. (Elias V. Messinas Architect)

Cross section of Etz HaHayim Synagogue in Larisa. Looking north. The heikhal is to the right, the bimah in the center, and the main entrance is to the left. (Elias V. Messinas Architect)

Longitudinal section of Etz HaHayim Synagogue in Larisa. Looking east towards the heikhal. The Jewish community center is to the right. (Elias V. Messinas Architect)

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The Synagogues of Greece by Elias Messinas

Published on Aug 17, 2017

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THE SYNAGOGUES OF GREECE: A STUDY OF SYNAGOGUES IN MACEDONIA AND THRACE is the result of nearly two decades of research and in-situ work by the author. The manuscript was based on the author’s Ph.D. dissertation at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and a post-doctoral Ally Kaufmann Fellowship research at the Technion Institute of Technology, Israel. Based on unpublished archival sources, and detailed architectural surveys and drawings, this book traces the history of the synagogues, the Jewish quarters and Jewish communities in Greece, from antiquity, through Byzantine and Ottoman times, contemporary history and the Holocaust, when 87% of Greek Jewry was annihilated. The author Elias Messinas is an architect, graduate of the Yale School of Architecture based in Israel and Greece.

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