Ali Eniss, Le débarcadère, place de l’Olympe, vers 1910
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Salonica, Jerusalem of the Balkans, 1870-1920, The Pierre de Gigord donation
19/09/2023 - 21/04/2024
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme
Hôtel de Saint-Aignan, 71 Rue du Temple
75003 Paris
www.mahj.org/fr
A cosmopolitan city, like other major ports in the Levant, Salonica – the Greek Thessaloniki under the Ottoman Empire – was for a long time a Jewish city where traders of all faiths closed on Saturdays and during Jewish holidays. Populated mainly by Romaniote, Ashkenazi and mostly Sephardic Jews, the Macedonian capital was also the least Turkish city of the Ottoman Empire, many Muslims being Sabbateans, Jews converted to Islam.
19/09/2023 - 21/04/2024
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme
Hôtel de Saint-Aignan, 71 Rue du Temple
75003 Paris
www.mahj.org/fr
A cosmopolitan city, like other major ports in the Levant, Salonica – the Greek Thessaloniki under the Ottoman Empire – was for a long time a Jewish city where traders of all faiths closed on Saturdays and during Jewish holidays. Populated mainly by Romaniote, Ashkenazi and mostly Sephardic Jews, the Macedonian capital was also the least Turkish city of the Ottoman Empire, many Muslims being Sabbateans, Jews converted to Islam.