Documentation regarding the Jewish community in Athens, Greece

Documentation regarding the Jewish community in Athens, Greece
 
 Included in the collection are community registration documents; regulations of the Jewish community of Athens; regulations of the community's Rabbinical Court, minutes of Rabbinical Court sessions, Rabbinical Court decisions, marriage contracts and divorces filed at the Rabbinical Court, and related documents; financial documentation of the Jewish community of Athens, as well as documentation regarding religious education at Jewish community schools and the teaching of Judaism at Jewish secular schools;
 
 Also included in the collection are registers of members of the Athens Jewish community (including personal information, places of residence, social position, and photographs of community members) as well as references, confirmations and certificates issued to community members by the chief rabbinate or by Jewish community leaders;
 
 Included are numerous documents regarding religious life in the community, the holding of synagogue services, and regarding synagogue officials and vacancies. There are schedules of services and daily prayers, documentation regarding service attendance by Jewish community members, and announcements regarding the holding of services devoted to special events (such as Greek national holidays, youth services held on the birthday of the King or Queen of Greece, and memorial services - for example, for Jewish settlers killed in Palestine in 1936);
 
 The collection also includes official communal correspondence: correspondence by the chief rabbinate and by leaders of the Athens Jewish community with central Greek and municipal authorities; correspondence by community leaders and the chief rabbinate with worldwide Jewish organizations such as the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and Keren Hayesod (UJA); correspondence with banks, businesses and enterprises regarding economic issues; correspondence with Jewish community leaders in other Greek cities and abroad; correspondence by leaders of the Athens Jewish community with private individuals regarding personal matters and regarding searches for relatives and respondents, and documentation regarding the transfer of Jewish refugees from Western and Eastern Europe to Palestine via Greece;
 
 Source: "Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish historical and cultural collections in the Russian State Military Archive", edited by David E. Fishman, Mark Kupovetsky, and Vladimir Kuzelenkov, 2010.