The Jewish Museum of Greece
Reconstructed synagogue interior and Judaica spanning two thousand years of Greek Jewish life.
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This guide to the Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens opens in 1979, when the shrinking Romaniote Jewish community of Patras made the hard decision to dismantle their own synagogue rather than let it stand empty, and gave its interior away to a small Athens museum. You'll hear how that museum began in 1977 in one room beside a working synagogue, gathered under scholar Nikos Stavroulakis, and how its collection later moved into this nineteenth-century building on Nikis Street. Climb past the Holocaust photographs and Torah scrolls from Corfu and Ioannina as you go.
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