Jewish Community of Athens Jüdische Gemeinde Athen (Fond 1427)

The collection includes community registration documents, bylaws, minutes, court decisions, marriage contracts and divorces, financial documents, instructions on teaching at schools, Contains also registers of members, photographs of the community members, numerous documents on the religious life and special services, and documentation on the transport of Jewish refugees from Western and eastern Europe to Palestine via Greece. Majority of collection constitute official communal correspondence: correspondence of the chief rabbinate and Athens community leaders with Greek central and municipal authorities; with Jewish international organizations (Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, Keren Hayesod); with banks, businesses; with leaders of other Jewish communities in Greece and abroad; with private individuals on personal matters on searches for relatives.

Fond 1427 (1609-1941). Opis 1; Dela 117. The collection's contents are not systematized, although many files have been grouped by subjects. Selected records arranged in four series: 1. Registers of members, and registration documents of the Jewish Community of Athens; 2. Documents on the religious life of the Community: 3. Correspondence, letters of the community leaders and chief rabbinate with Jewish international organizations, leaders of Jewish communities in other Greek cities and abroad, and with private individuals; 4. Lists of Jewish refugees transported from Western and Eastern Europe to Palestine (alphabetical). Note: Location of digital images; Partial microfilm reels #194-196, 756-767; Reel 194: Image #1609-reel end; Reel 195: reel start-Reel end; Reel 196: Reel star-Image #1313; Reel 756-766: Reel start-Reel end; Reel 767: Reel start-Image #746.