Editorial by Elias V. Messinas
Opening the third
issue of Kol haKEHILA, we would like to welcome all our new subscribers.
To our dedicated readers, many of whom inquired about the delay of this
issue, we must explain that it was for a very good reason: on January
26 - 28, 1999, the International Conference on Jewish Heritage of
Europe took place in Paris. This important meeting addressed for
the first time on a European scale - after the conference held in New
York in 1990 - the issue of preservation of the threatened Jewish sites
of Europe. Among the conservation projects presented for Poland, Hungary,
France, Italy, and other countries of Europe, an update of the progress
of the conservation efforts of the synagogues of Hania and Veroia in
Greece were presented. More details on the conference inside this issue.
As we promised in our previous issue, we are now presenting the Jewish
community of Ioannina, and the Romaniote synagogue Kahal Kadosh
Yashan, one of the last remaining examples of the Romaniote tradition
in Greece. We are also presenting briefly the conservation of the
synagogue of Hania, Crete, the new Holocaust monument of the
city of Volos, and much more.
We remind our readers that Kol haKEHILA is available online,
at the site of the European Sephardic Institute, courtesy of Moise Rahmani,
editor of Los Muestros. Kol haKEHILA extends its gratitude to
the European Sephardic Institute for its hospitality! Please
visit Kol haKEHILA online at www.sefarad.org
Finally, we thank Prof. Carol Krinsky for her dedicated input
to Kol haKEHILA, and all our readers who contributed to this
issue.
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