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	Romaniotes
		The Romaniotes are a Jewish population living in Greece.
		Remnants of the Romaniotes have survived in Yannena (Epirus) and the USA (Kehila-Kedosha-Janina Synagogue in New York, built in 1927, is a gathering spot for these Greek Jews).
		The creation of the state of Israel in 1948, combined with the Greek civil war, was the final episode in the history of the Romaniotes, the majority of whom migrated to Israel or the USA.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ro/Romaniotes.html (212 words)

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		The Romaniotes are a Jew ish population who have lived in the territory of today's Greece for more than 2000 years.
		The Romaniotes are historically distinct from the Sephardim, some of whom settled in Greece after the 1492 History of the Jews in Spain#Edict of Expulsion.
		Remnants of the Romaniotes have survived in Ioannina (Epirus (periphery)) and the United States (Kehila-Kedosha-Janina Synagogue in New York City, built in 1927, is a gathering spot for these Greek Jews).
	www.onet.pl.maturalny.com /en/Romaniotes (1143 words)

	Romaniotes
		The Romaniotes are historically distinct from the Sephardim, who settled in Greece after the 1492 expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
		Remnants of the Romaniotes have survived in Ioannina (Epirus) and the USA (Kehila-Kedosha-Janina Synagogue in New York City, built in 1927, is a gathering spot for these Greek Jews).
		Only one Romaniote synagogue is operation in the entire Western Hemisphere: Kehila Kedosha Janina, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where it is used by the Romaniote emmigrant community.
	www.jgames.co.uk /title/Romaniotes (1144 words)

	Romaniotes
		The Romaniotes are a Jewish population who have lived in the territory of today's Greece for more than 2000 years.
		The Romaniotes are distinct from the Sephardim, some of whom settled in Greece after the 1492 expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
		Remnants of the Romaniotes have survived in Yannena (Epirus) and the USA (Kehila-Kedosha-Janina Synagogue in New York City, built in 1927, is a gathering spot for these Greek Jews).
	www.mlahanas.de /Greece/History/Romaniotes.html (1098 words)

	Romaniotes and Sephardic Jews
		The Romaniotes have lived in Greece for over 2000 years from the time of the expansion of the Jewish Diaspora during the Hellenistic years.
		Because the Romaniotes have been speaking Greek and had been part of the Byzantine state several of them have surnames that are typically Greek such as Gabrielides, or their surname has a Greek form even if the original etymology is not Greek (for example, Bacolas, Matsas).
		While the Romaniotes were Greek in language and many customs they maintained a strong Jewish identity and they were particlularly religious and strictly observant.
	www.theopavlidis.com /essays/RomanSeph.htm (648 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : History of the Jews in Greece
		Aside from the Romaniotes, Greece is the home of a historical centre of Sephardic life; the city of Thessaloniki, called the "Mother of Israel" by Samuel Usque.
		All but a small number of the Romaniotes of Ioannina, the largest remaining Romaniote community not assimilated into Sephardic culture, were killed in the Holocaust.
		The Romaniotes of Thessaloniki, speaking a dialect of Greek, and living a Hellenized existence, were joined by a new Jewish colony in the first century CE.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=History_of_the_Jews_in_Greece (2745 words)

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		Romaniote Jews are Jews that have lived in Greece since the time of Alexander.
		The Romaniotes are Jews who can trace their descent to the Jews that were taken to Rome as slaves after the destruction of the second Temple.
		There is a Romaniote synogogue on the lower east side in Manhattan and another in Israel.
	www.kulanu.org /old/romaniote.html (528 words)

	The Jewish presence in Greece and the Balcans - culture, sacrafice, holocaust,
		The Greek-speaking Jews of Greece, the Romaniotes, have suffered both neglect and indifference from modern scholars.
		This fine work by Rae Dalven, herself a Romaniote, is a much needed initial work on not only the Romaniotes but on the life of the once quite significant Romaniote community in Ioannina.
		The Romaniots were the oldest Jewish communities in Greece, dating back to before the 2nd century BCE, and the community of Yannina was most important.
	members.tripod.com /gulnbla/romaniotes.htm (484 words)

	The Official Web Site of KIS, the Central Jewish Council of Greece
		The Romaniote cemetery was on "Avramiou Hill" towards the slope of the new citadel.
		This area was donated by Marshal Scholemburg "as a gesture of gratitude to the Jews for their bravery and gallantry during the Turkish siege in 1716".
		The Sephardic cemetery was close to the Romaniote one, in "Saroko" area towards the Holy Monastery of Platytera.
	www.atlantis.gr /kis/kerkyrahistory_en.html (1524 words)

	American Sephardi Federation > Images of the Jews from Greece 1880-1930
		The Romaniote Jews lived there from ancient times and were Greek speaking while the Sephardic Jews arrived there after their expulsion from Spain and spoke Ladino.
		The only Romaniote synagogues still remaining are those in Ioannina and Chalkis in Greece, the Zakynthos Synagogue in Tel Aviv, and right here on the Lower East Side, the only Romaniote Synagogue in the Western Hemisphere, Kehila Kedosha Janina.
		Romaniote Jews adopted the foods of the Greek Christian culture, adapting it to their dietary needs.
	www.americansephardifederation.org /sub/events/exhibition-jews_greece_1880-1930.asp (2419 words)

	Raleigh North Carolina Romaniotes
		The Romaniotes are Greek Jews, distinct from both Ashkenazim and Sephardim.
		At the end, most of the Romaniote communitites were assimilated.
		The Romaniotes had their distinct customs very different from those of the Sephardic Jews; unlike the Sephardim, they did not speak Ladino, but used Greek.
	www.raleigh-northcarolina.biz /romaniotes.html (339 words)

	Romaniotes Information
		The Romaniotes are historically distinct from the Sephardim, some of whom settled in Greece after the 1492 expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
		When the waves of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 settled in Ottoman Empire Greece, they were richer, prouder, and more cultivated, separating themselves from Romaniotes.
		The Romaniotes had their distinct customs, very different from those of the Sephardic Jews; unlike the Sephardic Jews, they did not speak Ladino, but the Yevanic Greek dialect and Greek.
	www.bookrags.com /Romaniotes (1117 words)

	News-Penn State Erie
		The roots of her book developed more than a decade ago during a visit to a friend in Jerusalem, when Connerty heard two women speaking a language that included some Hebrew, some Greek, and other sounds that were unfamiliar to her.
		In her research Connerty learned that the Romaniote Jews in Janina were a strong community of about 10,000 until World War II.
		Connerty traced the Janina survivors and their families to gather the material for her book, which is the first publication to directly address the language of the Romaniote.
	www.pserie.psu.edu /newscal/news2003/november-connerty.htm (363 words)

	Research in Suriname (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Romaniotes never came to terms with the new arrivals from Spain and Italy.
		The bi-polar arrangement of the ehal on the east wall and the bimah projecting from the west wall is typical of a Romaniote synagogue.
		At the end of the 15th century, Spanish and Sicilian Jews settled in Ioninna, but the community is a rare case of Romaniote survival in the face of Spanish immigration.
	www.isjm.org /jhr/nos3-4/symgrk.htm (1786 words)

	Romaniotes: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.
		...Romaniotes Romaniotes The Romaniotes are a Jewish population living in Greece....Remnants of the Romaniotes have survived in Yannena (Epirus) and the USA (Kehila-Kedosha-Janin...
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	www.encyclopedian.com /ro/Romaniotes.html (341 words)

	The pre-Ashkenazi and Sephardi Romaniote Jews \| Jerusalem Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Younger generations show little interest in sustaining the Romaniote legacy, explains Isaac, opting to conflate their traditions with the Sephardim, as Romaniotes have done for centuries since these descendants of Spain settled in Greece.
		Romaniotes carved out an enclave in the Lower East Side, the iconic, seamy district of Manhattan known for its broad swathe of immigrant populations.
		The Romaniotes were "never aggressive and proud of [themselves] and haven't been since they were submerged in the 15th century [by the Sephardim]," says Dr. Steven Bowman, professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati.
	www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1159193374317&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer (2912 words)

	Amazon.com: Romaniotes: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Jews of Byzantium called themselves Romaniote in connection with their pride of having been citizens of...
		The Jews within the Byzantine Empire were known as Romaniotes, as the Empire and its people saw themselves as successors...
		The congregation that built this small synagogue in 1927 is Romaniote, a branch of Judaism with a history that dates back...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Romaniotes&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (853 words)

	Yevanic language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Yevanic, otherwise known as Romaniote and Judeo-Greek, was the dialect of the Romaniotes, the group of Greek Jews whose existence in Greece is documented since the Hellenistic period.
		The Romaniotes used their version of the Hebrew alphabet to write Greek and Yevanic texts.
		and finally, the extermination of many of the Romaniotes during the Holocaust.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Yevanic_language (217 words)

	Before the Flame Goes Out - The Romaniote Jews of Ioannina & New York
		The Romaniotes are among the most ancient extant Jewish communities anywhere in the world and the winds of twentieth century change appear to have finally swept it closer to its end.
		The largely unknown and forgotten Romaniote Jews are on the verge of extinction, and once gone, will take the memories and recollections of their rich culture with them.
		They are a tangible contact with Hellenistic Jewry, which formed the matrix in which Christianity was born and developed and out of which came great rabbis and scholars who influenced Jewish life, including R. Tobias ben Eliezer, R. Moses Kapsali and Shemarya Ikriti.
	www.romaniotelegacy.org (266 words)

	Jewish News, Jewish Newspapers - Forward.com
		Last week the synagogue was designated a city landmark by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and it received a Lucy G. Moses preservation award from the New York Landmarks Conservancy in honor of the recently completed restoration of the building’s brick facade, stained-glass windows and skylights.
		Legend has it that the Romaniotes descend from a group of Jews who were being transported in a slave ship from Israel to Rome after the destruction of the second temple in 70 C.E. After a shipwreck off the west coast of Greece, as the story goes, they swam to shore.
		He installed display cases with old Romaniote religious articles and texts, and covered the walls with photos and maps on Romaniote culture and history.
	www.forward.com /article/it%E2%80%99s-all-greek-to-them (825 words)

	Marcia's Archives
		Later many Romaniotes from Corfu would flee to the city in 1246 during a war between Robert of Sicily and the Byzantine Empire.
		While the terms “Ashkenazim”; and “Sephardim”; are geographical terms designating Jews whose ancestry originated in “German Lands” or Spain, the term “Romaniote” is an historical term, denoting Jews who date their ancestry back to the Roman Empire.
		When, in the early 4th century, Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to a city on the Bosphorus, named Byzantion, renaming it after himself [Constantinopolis, the City of Constantine], Jews were citizens of the Roman Empire and, in their dialect, denoted themselves as such: Romaniotes-citizens of Roman.
	www.kkjsm.org /archives/archives.html (922 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Later, the Romans granted autonomy to the Jewish community, which was largely made up of traders, craftspeople, farmers and silk growers.
		This ancient community came to be known as the Romaniotes, some of whose descendants still live in Greece today.
		By the mid-16th century, Salonika — once known as the “Jerusalem of the Balkans” — had become a Jewish center of Europe, as persecuted Jews poured in.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=4055 (779 words)

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