Museum is now open
This new digital exhibition is a tribute to the memory of Nikos Stavroulakis
ISAAC M. BEZA COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS
This collection is a family inheritance of the family of Mr. Joseph Florentin, discovered in the home of his grandmother when she passed away in 2002. Recently, he kindly donated it to the JMG....
Τhe temporary historical exhibition under the title: "At the Crossroads: The Jewish Community of Corfu", was created by the Jewish Museum of Greece to frame the memorial events organised by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in...
The Jewish Museum of Greece was first established in 1977 and housed in a small room next to the city’s synagogue. It housed objects salvaged from WW II, mainly artefacts, documents and manuscripts of the 19th and 20th centuries,...
THE HISTORY - the romaniote jews
The Jews that have lived in Greece since Hellenistic times (3rd century B.C.), were called Romaniote Jews in Byzantine times and formed the vast majority of the Jewish population in Greece until the 15th century....
Nissim Levis
Nissim Levis was born in Ioannina in 1875, the fifth child of Davidjon and Hannoula. He was educated in Lausanne, where he finished high school. He then studied at the Sorbonne medical school, graduating in 1899. He remained...
The Jewish Museum of Greece will soon complete 45 years among Greek museums. We have chosen to celebrate this unusual Museums Day, by digitally presenting 18 characteristic and hopefully, interesting artifacts, each one connected to a human story, life...
The Oral History Archive of the Jewish Museum of Greece
An exhibition Installation of the JMG
The Oral History Archive (OHA) of the Jewish Museum of Greece had a small, simple beginning, just like many other things in life. The original...
The religious context within which senior clergy and chief rabbis operate differ greatly. But there is a connection: both are seen as shepherds guiding their respective flocks.
The Holocaust in Greece (1943–1944) confronted the shepherds of both faiths with great...
It was in the autumn of 2000, prompted by the first presentation in Greece of the Anne Frank House Museum’s touring exhibition, “Anne Frank: a Story for Today”, that the Jewish Museum of Greece began research into the subject...
