40 Real photo postcards depicting Jews from Thessaloniki in traditional dress, Jewish neighborhoods, and Jewish buildings in Thessaloniki. Early 20th century. Most of the postcards were in Jewish publishing houses operating in Thessaloniki. (In Thessaloniki there was a lively movement of distributing Jewish postcards in the early 20th century when about 30 different publishers were engaged in the distribution of Jewish postcards in the city): Among the distributors whose postcards appear: Pesach Molcho, and Joshua Saul, and others.
In postcards: Rabbi of Thessaloniki Rabbi Yaakov Meir, mother and daughter in modern attire alongside traditional dress, private homes of wealthy Jews (including Emanuel Salem's villa, and Charles Alatini's villa), and Jewish businesses (including Matarasso-Saragoussi postcard store front ), An old Jew next to the building of the Jewish community with the flag of the Zionist movement next to the flag of Greece, group photographs of Jews in traditional clothing in the Jewish neighborhood, a Jew with French soldiers during World War I, Jewish merchants and porters, Jewish women in traditional dress, and more. Landscape postcards of Jewish centers in the city also appear.
In Saloniki, called by the Jews of Salonika, a large Jewish community existed for hundreds of years. After the expulsion from Spain, tens of thousands of Jews arrived in Salonika and settled there, turning it into the largest and largest Sephardic Jewish center. On Saturdays the city was almost completely occupied, including the port, because of the Jewish majority. At the end of the 18th century, its unique weight made it one of the cities with the largest Jewish community in the world. The city's Jews developed the city in terms of commerce, industry, banking, and the like. Between the 16th and 18th centuries the city became a center of Torah and Jewish culture.
Many of the postcards in the collection appear in a book about Jewish postcards from Thessaloniki: "The Jews of Thessaloniki through the postcards 1886-1917, 1992" -, as well as in the book of the renowned collector Gerrad Silvain IMAGE et TRADITIONS JUIVES.
In 27 postcards on the back is a Caption from the beginning of the 20th century. Overall good-very good condition.
