Honoring the Dead: photography and the Display of the Jewish Necropolis at the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki

Honored with the title “La Madre de Israel” (“Mother of Israel”), Thessaloniki, or Salonica historically, had for centuries been the most populous city of Sephardic Jewry in the world. The city’s centuries-long Jewish character was fractured in 1943, when the Nazis began deporting Jews to concentration camps. Given the city’s intense “Jewishness,” the establishment of a Jewish Museum in Thessaloniki was highly anticipated.