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THE JEWS OF GREECE
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| Lectures:
"SAVING THE JEWISH HERITAGE OF GREECE"
by Dr. Elias Messinas, AssocAIA, Architect Sephardic Congregation 1819 W. Howard St., Evanston, IL Sunday 17 September 2000, 7:00 pm & Holocaust Memorial Center West Bloomfield, MI 18 September 2000, 7:30 pm Lecture: "THE TRANSITION OF THE GREEK SYNAGOGUES FROM THE OTTOMAN TO THE EUROPEAN MODELS: THE EXAMPLE OF SALONIKA" by Dr. Elias Messinas, AssocAIA, Architect Midwest Jewish Studies Association, 12th Annual Conference Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Monday 18 September 2000, session V-B (10:15-11:45) titled "The Balkans and the Middle East". Dr. Messinas is the Editor of Kol haKEHILA, the NEWSLETTER OF THE JEWISH MONUMENTS OF GREECE, and Adjunct lecturer at the Technion, Haifa, Israel. Expert in the history and architecture of the JEWS OF GREECE and the GREEK SYNAGOGUES, and project architect of the historic preservation of the 19th century synagogue of Veroia, northern Greece. Sephardic Cultural Evening: Spotlight on the JEWS OF GREECE : Magen David Sephardic Congregation - 11215 Woodglen Drive Rockville, MD 20852 Tel: (301) 770-6818, Fax (301) 881-0498, E-mail: magendavid@erols.com Sunday 24 September, 7:00 pm. Food, films, books, and more! More details. Lecture: "RESTORING GLORY: THE PRESERVATION OF SEPHARDIC HERITAGE SITES AROUND THE WORLD" by ISJM President and architectural historian Dr. Samuel Gruber will lecture at the Center for Jewish History New York. Tuesday, September 19th, at 7:00 p.m. Address: 15 West 16th Street. To reserve a place call the ASF at (212) 294-8350. The lecture is sponsored by the American Sephardi Federation (ASF), one of the five member orgniazations in the new center. Dr. Gruber's illustrated lecture will discuss the enormous strides taken over the past decade to identify, protect and preserve the great monuments of Sephardi and Mizrahi heritage around the world. Gruber will present the work of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad on behalf of the cemetery, and the work of others such as the World Monuments Fund and the International Survey of Jewish Monuments on behalf of endangered Sephardi sites throughout the world. Gruber is the author of "Synagogues" (Metrobooks, NY, 1999) and many other publications about synagogues and historic Jewish sites. The lecture is free to the public, but seating is limited. Mazal Tov! Max Kleiner celebrated his Bar Mitzvah on Saturday 5 August 2000 at the Kal Kadosh Yashan synagogue of Ioannina, Greece, the synagogue of his grand-parents Morris and Eva Kabelis, and Isaac Ben Haim and Stemoula Levy. Congratulations to Max and his parents Rhonda and Ted! View Max Kleiner receiving lessons before his Bar Mitzvah in Jerusalem. Congratulations to the American Friends of Greek Jewry (AFGJ) for the initiative to honor the Righteous of Nations who saved Greek Jews during the Second World War. Special prizes will be offered at the ceremony. The honored Righetous are: Vassilis Persidis, Vassiliou family, Thadou family, Frederick Soueref, Georgios Karatzas, and Vassilis Rakopoulos. Special prizes will be offered to the Greek Resistance Groups of EAM/ELAS and EDES. The ceremony took place on August 9, 2000, at the Bestwestern Coral Hotel, Athens, Greece. |
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