Psalm 23: Holocaust Memorial at Ave N
Holocaust Memorial at Avenue N Synagogue on 5/15/11.
Psalm 23 sang by David Mandler to the tune of Szol a Kakas Mar.
El Maleh Rachamim prayer in Holocaust Memorial ceremony in Ioannina, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis performs El Maleh Rachamim at the Kahal Kadosh Yashan Synagogue in Ioannina, Greece. The video was recorded on Sunday, March 30, 2014 during the Holocaust Memorial Ceremony for the remembrance of the 70 years since the Nazi deportations of Greek Jews.
More than 500 people from all over the world, including foreign Diplomats and local dignitaries, attended this moving ceremony organized by the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) and the historical Romaniote local Jewish Community.
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Unveiling Athens Holocaust Memorial
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Romaniote Jews | Wikipedia audio article
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The Romaniote Jews or Romaniotes (Greek: Ῥωμανιῶτες, Rhōmaniṓtes; Hebrew: רומניוטים, Romanyotim) are an ethnic Jewish community native to the Eastern Mediterranean. They are generally one of the oldest Jewish communities in existence and specifically the oldest Jewish community in Europe. Their distinct language was Judaeo-Greek, a Greek dialect that contained Hebrew along with some Aramaic and Turkish words but now speak modern Greek or the languages of their new home countries. They derived their name from the old name for the people of the Byzantine Empire, Romaioi. Large communities were located in Thebes, Ioannina, Chalcis, Corfu, Arta, Preveza, Volos, Patras, Corinth, and on the islands of Zakynthos, Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Rhodes, and Cyprus, among others. The Romaniotes are historically distinct and still remain distinct from the Sephardim, who settled in Ottoman Greece after the 1492 expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
A majority of the Jewish population of Greece was killed in the Holocaust after Axis powers occupied Greece during World War II. They deported most of the Jews to Nazi concentration camps. After the war, a majority of the survivors emigrated to Israel, the United States, and Western Europe. Today there are still functioning Romaniote Synagogues in Chalkis which represents the oldest Jewish congregation on European ground, in Ioannina, Athens, New York and Israel.
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Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 14 in the Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 14 in the Kahal Kadosh Yashan Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece. The video was recorded by an amateur Israeli tourist on Sunday, March 30, 2014 during the ceremony for the 70 years from the Holocaust of the Jews of Ioannina. More than 500 people from all over the world attended this moving ceremony organized by the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) and the historical Romaniote local Jewish Community.
Cantor Haim Ischakis is singing Psalm 83 at Chalkis, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis is singing Psalm 83 for the Shoah victims at the Romaniote Synagogue of Chalkis, Greece. Video taken by a tourist on Sunday, April 22, 2012
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 130 in the Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 130 in the Kahal Kadosh Yashan Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece. The video was recorded by an amateur Israeli tourist on Sunday, March 30, 2014 during the ceremony for the 70 years from the Holocaust of the Jews of Ioannina. More than 500 people from all over the world attended this moving ceremony organized by the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) and the historical Romaniote local Jewish Community.
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Jews have been present in Greece since at least the fourth century BC. The oldest and the most characteristic Jewish group that has inhabited Greece are the Romaniotes, also known as Greek Jews. However, the term Greek Jew is predominantly used for any person of Jewish descent or faith that lives in or originates from the modern region of Greece.
Aside from the Romaniotes, a distinct Jewish population that historically lived in communities throughout Greece and neighboring areas with large Greek populations, Greece had a large population of Sephardi Jews, and is a historical center of Sephardic life; the city of Salonica or Thessaloniki, in Greek Macedonia, was called the Mother of Israel. Greek Jews played an important role in the early development of Christianity, and became a source of education and commerce for the Byzantine Empire and throughout the period of Ottoman Greece, until suffering devastation in the Holocaust after Greece was conquered and occupied by the Axis powers despite efforts by Greeks to protect them. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, a large percentage of the surviving community emigrated to Israel or the United States.
The Jewish community in Greece currently amounts to roughly 8,000 people, concentrated mainly in Athens, Thessaloniki (or Salonika in Judeo-Spanish), Larissa, Volos, Chalkis, Ioannina, Trikala, Corfu and a functioning synagogue on Crete, while very few remain in Kavala and Rhodes. Greek Jews today largely live side by side in harmony with Christian Greeks, according to Giorgo Romaio, president of the Greek Committee for the Jewish Museum of Greece, while nevertheless continuing to work with other Greeks, and Jews worldwide, to combat any rise of anti-Semitism in Greece. Currently the Jewish community of Greece makes great efforts to establish a Holocaust museum in the country. A permanent pavilion about the Holocaust of Greek Jews in KZ Auschwitz shall be installed. A delegation and the president of the Jewish communities of Greece met in November 2016 with Greek politicians and asked them for support in their demand to get back the community archives of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki from Moscow.
Cantor Haim Ischakis performing El Male Rachamim at Chalkis, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis performing El Male Rachamim prayer for the Shoah victims at the Romaniote Synagogue of Chalkis, Greece. Very moving video taken by a tourist on April 22, 2012.
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 83 in the Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 83 in the Kahal Kadosh Yashan Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece. The video was recorded by an amateur Israeli tourist on Sunday, March 30, 2014 during the ceremony for the 70 years from the Holocaust of the Jews of Ioannina. More than 500 people from all over the world attended this moving ceremony organized by the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) and the historical Romaniote local Jewish Community.
Cantor Haim Ischakis is singing Psalm 91 for the Shoah victims at Chalkis, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis is singing Psalm 91 for the Shoah victims at the Romaniote Synagogue of Chalkis, Greece. Video taken by a tourist on Sunday, April 22, 2012
Cantor Haim Ischakis is singing Psalm 33 for the Shoah victims at Chalkis, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis is singing Psalm 33 for the Shoah victims at the Romaniote Synagogue of Chalkis, Greece. Video taken by a tourist on Sunday, April 22, 2012
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P3 - First-Ever Congressional Holocaust Commemoration Highlighting Sephardic & Romaniote Experience
On January 31, 2019, over 200 people gathered with Sephardic Heritage International (SHIN) DC in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol at the Gold Room of the Congressional Rayburn building to remember the too-often forgotten Sephardic & Romaniote communities devastated by the Holocaust. IN THIS VIDEO: The Narrative of Romaniote Survivor Paulette Nehama (Greece / Maryland), Widow of Isaac Nehama – Susan Barocas and Paulette Nehama. PART 3
Congressional Sponsor: Jamie Raskin
Partners with Sephardic Heritage International DC (SHIN DC):
The Embassy of Israel; The Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America; and Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue & Museum
In addition to PART 3, we will add the rest of the entire program in parts, consisting of:
Leila Levi, SHIN DC Board member and President of the Hispanic Bar Association – Opening Remarks. PART 1
Leah Wolfson, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) – Honoring the memory of Sephardic Jewry killed during the Holocaust and honoring Sephardic survivor Isaac Nehama (Greece / Maryland). PART 2
Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos, Museum Director at Kehila Kedosha Janina – The Sephardic & Romaniote experience during the Holocaust (Greece, including Rhodes and Ioannina, and the Balkans). PART 4
Franz Afraim Katzir, SHIN DC Board member and Director in collaboration with Cynthia Flash Hemphill – Finding a voice like Anne Frank's in the Sephardic world (Claire Barkey's letters in 'A Hug From Afar'). PART 5
The Narrative and Songs of Survivor Flory Jagoda (Bosnia / VA) – Janet Dunkelberger & Heather Spence, founding members of Laz Tiyas women's Ladino singing group, mentored by Flory Jagoda. PART 6
Narrative of Miriam Zuares (Libya / Israel / Maryland) – Miriam Zuares. PART 7
Narrative of Viviane Hayoun Bloodworth (France / Tunisia / Maryland) – ‘One Hour': The story of her escape from France to her parents' birthplace of Tunisia, where Jewish men were conscripted for almost 40 detention camps and forced labor areas run by the Germans and the Italians – Viviane Hayoun Bloodworth. PART 8
Violet Battat, SHIN DC Board member – Violet’s namesake: Surviving the Farhud in Iraq. PART 9
Holocaust survivors are acknowledged and they, as well as other special guests and dignitaries light flames to remember all who perished and survivors no longer with us. Rabbi Nissim Elnecavé, Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America sings Agadel’kha and says Qaddish (Mourner's Prayer, said in honor of the deceased) during the lighting. PART 10
Shlomo Bolts, SHIN DC Board member – Closing remarks on taking a stand against anti-Semitism in all of its forms. PART 11
Robert Capon, SHIN DC member – Remarks on SHIN DC. PART 12
Photography Exhibit ‘Sephardic & Romaniote Experiences of the Holocaust and WWII' co-curated by Franz Afraim Katzir of Sephardic Heritage International (SHIN) DC, Danya Dayanim of SHIN DC, and Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos of Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum. SEE PART 13
SEPHARDIC HERITAGE INTERNATIONAL (SHIN) DC builds intercultural bridges while raising awareness of Sephardic and other underrepresented Jewish heritages and the cultures arts and history of the Middle East, North Africa, Greece, the Balkans, the Iberian Peninsula and Central & Western Asia (shindc.org)
Cantor Haim Ischakis blows the Shofar at Bikernieki Holocaust Memorial
Cantor Haim Ischakis blows the Shofar at the Holocaust Memorial in Bikernieki forest, Riga, Latvia. This moving video was recorded on Friday, July 9, 2010 during a memorial service in memory of the approximately 40.000 Jews and non-Jews murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators in the forest during the Nazi occupation.
Remembering The Lost Voices of Greece
The Lost Voices program held on June 7, 2012 served to announce to our community a little known event, the Holocaust in Greece. During 1944, the Nazi forces invaded Greece which had a Jewish population of approximately 70,000 Jews. Immediately roundups and deportations of the Jewish community was undertaken. By the end of World War II, less than 10,000 Jews were left in Greece.
The event held on June 7th was not only to memorialize the victims of the Holocaust in Greece, but to recreate what was lost in the days of the Shoah. To this end, the program include a viewing of our current exhibit, Lost Voices : Greek Jews and the Holocaust, and was followed by a reception including Greek food, music and dancing. The vitality of the guests attending the program successfully recreated a life that had temporarily been eradicated and was now restored.
The City Concealed: Kehila Kedosha Janina - The Last Greek Synagogue
Sol Matsil - Romaniote (Judeo-Greek)
Sol Matsil speaks Romaniote, the Greek dialect of the Jews of Janina. Recorded by Daniel Kaufman at the Kehila Kedosha Janina, New York City in 2014.
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