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RELIGIOUS LIFE the cycle of life – part b
The purpose of marriage was always to produce children. For forty days following a birth, the new mother and her newborn child were protected...
EVERYDAY LIFE life at work
From the time they first settled in Ioannina, the Jews had all sorts of occupations, but the most common were occupations that fulfilled the...
EVERYDAY LIFE Costumes
There was no recognisably Jewish form of dress by which the people of the Diaspora could be distinguished or identified. They dressed in accordance...
EVERYDAY LIFE language and education
While Hebrew remained the language of religious observation and was also a unifying factor for the Jews of the Diaspora, local communities used the...
EVERYDAY LIFE community institutions
As in all Jewish communities, the strict internal organisation of the Romaniote Community of Ioannina guaranteed its smooth running, especially when under the Ottoman...
EVERYDAY LIFE life at home
By 1944, some Romaniote Jews of the Jewish Community of Ioannina lived inside the castle walls, while others lived outside. As a result of...
EVERYDAY LIFE arts and letters
Romaniote Jews played a significant role in every field of the arts in Ioannina and in the rest of Greece, too. The Romaniote Jews...
JOSEPH ELIGIA AND HIS TIMES life and works – part a
A Jew and a Greek in one…
The first Jewish poet to write in Greek…
Christos Christovasilis
Joseph Elias Kapoulias, better known as Joseph Eligia, was born...
JOSEPH ELIGIA AND HIS TIMES life and works – part b
In 1922, with his intellectual development still in progress, his perception of the world widened and his interest shifted from involvement in Jewish issues...
JOSEPH ELIGIA AND HIS TIMES the local community
In the early 1920s, the Jewish Community of Ioannina numbered about 3000. The rough mannerisms that were characteristic of the highland people of Epirus...
