The Synagogues of Greece by Elias Messinas

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Longitudinal section reconstruction of the synagogue in Xanthi, looking south towards the ezrat nashim balcony. The heikhal is to the left and the main entrance to the right. (Elias V. Messinas Architect)

Cross section reconstruction of the synagogue in Xanthi, looking west towards the main entrance. (Elias V. Messinas Architect)

Cross section reconstruction of the synagogue in Xanthi, looking east towards the heikhal. (Elias V. Messinas Architect)

Side elevation (north) of the synagogue in Xanthi facing the Jewish school and community center, built in 1926 and demolished in 1995. (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 Based on unpublished archival sources, and detailed architectural surveys and drawings, this book traces the history of the synagogues, the Jewish quarters and Jewish communities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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