Postcards Collection - The Jews of Salonika, early 20th century

Postcards Collection - The Jews of Salonika, early 20th century

27 postcards, most of them photographed [Real photo] depicting Jews from Salonika in traditional costumes, early 20th century. Most of them of Jewish Publishers in Salonika. (Thessaloniki had a lively movement of distributing Jewish postcards at the beginning of the 20th century when about 30 different publishers were involved in the distribution of Jewish postcards in the city). Among them Hananel Nahar, Yehoshua Saul and others.

In the postcards: two different postcards of the Rabbi of Salonika Rabbi Ya'akov Meir, in one of which Rabbi Ya'akov Meir appeared to represent the Jewish community in the city at an event held on the occasion of the Greek Independence Day [from the collection of Gerard Silvain, see this postcard in his book IMAGE et TRADITIONS JUIVES 297], Interior of the synagogue of Italian Jews in the city, A Jewish family in a temporary tent near the city After the fire that broke out in the city in 1917 and burned parts of the city and left many homeless Jews, An elderly Jew standing beside the building of the Jewish community on which the flag of the Zionist movement is mounted beside a local flag, Local Jewish family, group photographs of Jews in distinct traditional clothing, Jewish merchants, Jewish women Costume, different scenes from the city's Jewish cemetery, husband and wife in traditional dress [Couple Juif old style], and others.

In Saloniki, called by the Jews of Salonika, a large Jewish community existed for hundreds of years. After the expulsion from Spain, tens of thousands of Jews arrived in Salonika and settled there, turning it into the largest and largest Sephardic Jewish center. On Saturdays the city was almost completely occupied, including the port, because of the Jewish majority. At the end of the 18th century, its unique weight made it one of the cities with the largest Jewish community in the world. The city's Jews developed the city in terms of commerce, industry, banking, and the like. Between the 16th and 18th centuries the city became a center of Torah and Jewish culture.

Many of the postcards in the collection before us appear in 'The Jews of thessaloniki through the postcards 1886-1917', was published 1992, and in the well-known collector Gerard Silvain book,  IMAGE et TRADITIONS JUIVES.

The 22 was used. general fine - very fine condition.