Jewish Museum of Greece

Ethnological museum in Athens, Greece

Jewish Museum of Greece
Εβραϊκό Μουσείο Ελλάδος

The Jewish Museum of Greece

Established| 1977
Location| Nikis 39,
Athens, Greece
Type| Ethnological museum
Public transit access|  Syntagma
Line Syntagma
Website| www.jewishmuseum.gr

The Jewish Museum of Greece (Greek: Εβραϊκό Μουσείο της Ελλάδος) is a museum in Athens, Greece. It was established by Nicholas Stavroulakis in 1977 to preserve the material culture of the Greek Jews.[1] The museum displays the 2,300 years of Greek Jewish history through the material artifacts in its possession. The collections and archives of the museum contain over 10,000 artifacts. Included in the museum is an art gallery, a periodic exhibition space, a research library, and photo archive and conservation laboratories.[2]

## Gallery

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* Plaque in memory of Mordechai Frizis at the Jewish Museum

* View of the interior

* Megillah with cast and engraved silver-gilt case

* Artifacts that Nazis took from the local Jewish community

* Traditional clothing

## See also

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* Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki
* Jewish Museum of Rhodes
* History of the Jews in Greece
* Holocaust Museum of Greece
* Romaniote Jews

## References

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1. ^ Plaut, Joshua Eli, Greek Jewry in the Twentieth Century, 1913-1983; Patterns of Jewish survival in the Greek Provinces Before and After the Holocaust, Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 1996 p. 184
2. ^ "Jewish Museum of Greece". Association of European Jewish Museums. Retrieved 7 June 2024.

## External links

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Media related to Jewish Museum of Greece at Wikimedia Commons

* Official website
* City of Athens
* Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism
* American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece
* Jewish Museum of Rhodes

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Judaism in Greece

Communities|

* Romaniote Jews
* Sephardic Jews

History|

| General|

* Hellenistic Judaism
* Byzantine Jews
* Ottoman Jews
* The Holocaust

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By location|

* Arta
* Athens
* Cyprus
* Internment camps
* Ioannina
* Kastoria
* Rhodes
* Thessaloniki
* Zakynthos

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Culture|

* Greek citron
* Jewish Koine Greek
* Yevanic language
* Ladino language
* Hebrew Political Union
* Maccabi Thessaloniki

Notable people|

* Mary the Jewess
* Sabbatai Zevi
* Avraam Benaroya
* Gina Bachauer
* Mordechai Frizis
* Raphaël Salem
* Roza Eskenazi
* Karolos Koun
* Albert Cohen
* Salamo Arouch

Museums|

* Holocaust Museum of Greece
* Jewish Museum of Greece
* Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki
* Jewish Museum of Rhodes
* Kehila Kedosha Janina

Antisemitism|

* Rhodes blood libel
* Don Pacifico affair and case
* 1891 riots in Corfu
* Campbell pogrom,
* National Union of Greece

Synagogues

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Museums in Athens

Archaeological|

* Acropolis Museum
* Epigraphical Museum
* Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art
* Kerameikos Archaeological Museum
* Kanellopoulou Museum
* National Archaeological Museum
* Stoa of Attalos
* Archaeological Museum of Piraeus
* Old Acropolis Museum
* Pieridis Museum
* Syntagma Metro Station Archaeological Collection
* Museum of the Center for the Acropolis Studies
* Athens International Airport Archaeological Collection

Byzantine and ecclesiastic|

* Byzantine and Christian Museum

Ethnological/historical|

* Athens War Museum
* Drossinis Museum
* Eleftherios Venizelos Historical Museum
* Goulandris Natural History Museum
* Jewish Museum of Greece
* Museum of the City of Athens
* National Historical Museum

Folklore|

* Museum of Greek Folk Art
* Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments
* Centre for the Study of Traditional Pottery
* Museum of the History of the Greek Costume

Art museums/galleries|

* Athinais Cultural Center
* Benaki Museum
* B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation
* Deste Foundation
* Emfietzoglou Gallery Museum
* Frissiras Museum
* Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art
* Gounaropoulos Museum
* Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum
* Marika Kotopouli Museum
* Municipal Gallery of Athens
* National Gallery (Athens)
* National Glyptotheque
* National Museum of Contemporary Art
* Nikos Chatzikyriakos-Gikas Art Gallery
* Panos Aravantinos Decor Museum
* Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation Museum

Industry/technology|

* Eugenides Foundation
* Hellenic Air Force Museum
* Hellenic Motor Museum
* Railway Museum of Athens
* Electric Railways Museum
* OTE Museum of Telecommunications
* Technopolis (Gazi)

Education/sports/
special interests|

* Athens University Museum
* Hellenic Children's Museum
* Hellenic Cosmos
* Hellenic Maritime Museum
* Mineralogy and Petrology Museum
* Museum of Anthropology of University of Athens
* Museum of Criminology
* Numismatic Museum of Athens
* Postal & Philatelic Museum of Greece
* Spathario Museum
* Tactual Museum of Athens
* Theatrical Museum of Greece
* Zoological Museum of the University of Athens

Museum ships|

* Georgios Averof
* Velos D16
* SS Hellas Liberty
* Olympias

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Germany
* United States
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* Czech Republic
* Israel

Artists|

* ULAN

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