The Synagogues of Greece by Elias Messinas

Interior of Beit Shalom Synagogue in Athens bult in the late 1930s. The interior of the synagogue was renovated in the 1970s in a modern style. The heikhal and the bimah are built adjacent to each other, in a Reform manner. (Elias V. Messinas Archive)

The ezrat nashim (womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s section) balcony of the Synagogue Kahal Shalom in Rhodes, probably a later addition to the original building. (Elias V. Messinas Archive)

Interior of the synagogue in Chalkis. Over the bimah is the balcony of the ezrat nashim (womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s section). (Elias V. Messinas Archive)

Morphological characteristics of Greek synagogues. (Elias V. Messinas Achitect)

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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 Based on unpublished archival sources, and detailed architectural surveys and drawings, this book traces the history of the synagogues, the Jewish quarters and Jewish communities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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