Romaniote

The Romaniotes are Greek Jews, as distinct from both Ashkenazim and Sephardim. Jews have lived in Greece possibly as early as the Babylonian exile, and certainly had established communities in major Greek cities by the time of Jesus. There are very few Greek Jews alive today, a large percentage having been murdered by the Nazis. They only numbers in the thousands, most living in Greece, some in Israel, and also in the United States. Greek Jews historically tended to follow the Jerusalem Talmud instead of the Babylonian Talmud, and developed their own Minhag and their own Greek-Hebrew language, called Yevanika. Category:Jews