The first Jews arrived in Salonika — known as Thessaloniki in Greek — in the second century BCE from Alexandria.

A Jewish community existed there during Hellenistic and Roman times.

Salonika’s earliest congregation, Etz Haim, dated from that period and continued to exist into the 20th century.

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