The Synagogues of Greece by Elias Messinas

General meeting of the Mizrahi Jewish club in Salonika circa 1930s. (Avraham and David Recanati Collection)

City plan of Salonika showing Beit Shaul Synagogue in the 1930s. Juxtaposed on the plan is the new city plan of the city. (YPEHODE, scale 1:500, undated)

Prayer service in Talmud Torah Synagogue in 1916. (Vassilis Mavromatis Collection) Kiana Synagogue in the 1980s, prior to its demolition. (The Jewish Museum of Greece)

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 Based on unpublished archival sources, and detailed architectural surveys and drawings, this book traces the history of the synagogues, the Jewish quarters and Jewish communities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