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La Rhodes Jewish Community History aquí relatada es la publicada por la Encicplopedia Judaica escrita en tre 1901 y 1906 por lo que es válida hasta esa fecha. Preferimos publicar esta referencia por la rica información que brinda aún cuando esté completamente desatualizada. Es interesante leer la descripción en tiempo presente de una comunidad ahora inexistente. La parte de la historia posterior de los judíos en la isla (caída del imperio otomano, ocupación italiana, el advenimiento del nazismo, la shoá, la segunda guerra mundial, la posguerra, la administración griega y la vida actual de la comunidad judía) será actualizada próximamente incorporándola a continuación de la presente. La traducción está aún pendiente de revisión.
Introductión
  urkish (*) island in the Ægean Sea, and the largest in the Sporades group. This island has successively borne different names, finally preserving that of 'Πόδον. The Bible knew it under the name  . In Gen. x. 4 the word  , occurs, in I Chron. i. 7  (see "Encyc. Bibl." and Hastings, "Dict. Bible," s.v. "Dodanim"). To-day Rhodes, its capital city, is the chief place in the vilayet of the islands of the Ottoman Archipelago. The island has a total population of 30,000, and of these there are about 4,000 Jews in the town and some in the neighboring villages.
Gedaliah ibn Yahya states that Rhodes was built by a king of Argolis in the time of the patriarch Jacob ("Shalshelet ha-Ḳabbalah," p. 77a). In 656 a Jew of Emesa, a Syrian city (modern Ḳoms), bought the débris of the famous Colossus of Rhodes, which had been destroyed by an earthquake in 282 B.C. He conveyed this débris to Loryma, now Marmaritza, twenty-seven miles from Rhodes.
The Jews were established in Rhodes in remotest times. They are mentioned in I Macc. x. 15, 23 as dwelling there in 140 B.C. Benjamin of Tudela relates that he found 500 of them there, and Rottiers says that the Jews who fled from Spain on account of persecution left Tarragona in 1280 and established themselves in Rhodes, which then was held by the Saracens ("Inscriptions et Monuments de Rhodes," Brussels, 1830).
At Malona, a village seven miles from the capital, there exists to-day a street named "Evriaki," which is so called from a Jewish settlement there. This settlement was established before the Knights of St. John arrived at Rhodes (1309), when the Jews occupied the same district in which they live to-day (*).
(*) Se recuerda que el texto fue escrito entre 1901 y 1906 cuando la isla era turca -hoy es griega- y existía una amplia comunidad judía en la isla.
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Fuente: Jewish Encyclopedia, por Gotthard Deutsch y Abraham Galante [enter] |
