Les Juifs de Xanthi

Xanthi, in western Greek Thrace, sheltered a Sephardic community whose members worked primarily in the tobacco trade, the region's major activity. Judeo-Spanish-speaking, they were organized around their synagogue and communal institutions. During the Second World War, the region came under Bulgarian occupation, and the community was deported in 1943 and annihilated in the Nazi camps.

Sources & resources

• Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
• Jewish Virtual Library ↗