The study of Byzantine Jewry - its political and social history no less than its cultural institutions and achievements - has long been the stepchild of Jewish scholarship. A further challenge is the continually shifting borders of the Byzantine world. For a few hundred years, Jews were granted freedom of settlement and movement within the Empire and were not excluded from the Christian socio-economic space. We will attempt to define Jewish life in Greece at this time and how Jews coped with their loss of the Holy Land. We will also look at the beginnings of the Karaite communities in Greece.
Greek-Jewish relations present the oldest continuous inter-ethnic relationship in history, lasting as it does over three millennia. The story begins with the encounter of the Jews with Hellens and Hellenism, proceeds with the ever-growing Jewish presence in mainland Greece and the islands, through Roman, Rhomanian (often called Byzantine), and Ottoman times, and subsequently the Holocaust, when most of Greek Jews - Rhomaniote or Sephardic - were annihilated. This series will follow the history of Jewish presence in Greece from the beginning until modern times.
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30 сен 2024
