• Thessaloniki, Greece - the greatest Jewish epic?

  • Oct 28 2024
  • Length: 49 mins
  • Podcast

Thessaloniki, Greece - the greatest Jewish epic?

  • Summary

  • Jewish community member and guide Hella Kounio-Matalon takes podcast hosts Mark and David on a whistlestop tour of more than 2,000 years of history, in a city where Jews were the majority for five centuries.

    This time:
    • Alexander the Great's Jewish entourage
    • They came in their thousands from Spain, Portugal and Italy
    • Inside today's community
    • A musical trip into the surviving pre-Holocaust synagogue
    • When to travel, getting there, lodgings and food
    • Tracing the past: the excellent Jewish museum
    • Europe's largest cemetery is no more
    • Of Thessaloniki mansions
    • There's got to be a Chabad restaurant
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