El Maleh Rachamim prayer in Holocaust Memorial ceremony in Ioannina, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis performs El Maleh Rachamim at the Kahal Kadosh Yashan Synagogue in Ioannina, Greece. The video was recorded on Sunday, March 30, 2014 during the Holocaust Memorial Ceremony for the remembrance of the 70 years since the Nazi deportations of Greek Jews.
More than 500 people from all over the world, including foreign Diplomats and local dignitaries, attended this moving ceremony organized by the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) and the historical Romaniote local Jewish Community.
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Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 130 in the Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 130 in the Kahal Kadosh Yashan Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece. The video was recorded on Sunday, March 30, 2014 during the ceremony for the 70 years from the Holocaust of the Jews of Ioannina. More than 500 people from all over the world attended this moving ceremony organized by the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) and the historical Romaniote local Jewish Community.
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 130 in the Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 130 in the Kahal Kadosh Yashan Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece. The video was recorded by an amateur Israeli tourist on Sunday, March 30, 2014 during the ceremony for the 70 years from the Holocaust of the Jews of Ioannina. More than 500 people from all over the world attended this moving ceremony organized by the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) and the historical Romaniote local Jewish Community.
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 14 in the Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 14 in the Kahal Kadosh Yashan Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece. The video was recorded by an amateur Israeli tourist on Sunday, March 30, 2014 during the ceremony for the 70 years from the Holocaust of the Jews of Ioannina. More than 500 people from all over the world attended this moving ceremony organized by the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) and the historical Romaniote local Jewish Community.
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The Romaniote Jews or Romaniotes (Greek: Ῥωμανιῶτες, Rhōmaniṓtes; Hebrew: רומניוטים, Romanyotim) are an ethnic Jewish community native to the Eastern Mediterranean. They are generally one of the oldest Jewish communities in existence and specifically the oldest Jewish community in Europe. Their distinct language was Judaeo-Greek, a Greek dialect that contained Hebrew along with some Aramaic and Turkish words but now speak modern Greek or the languages of their new home countries. They derived their name from the old name for the people of the Byzantine Empire, Romaioi. Large communities were located in Thebes, Ioannina, Chalcis, Corfu, Arta, Preveza, Volos, Patras, Corinth, and on the islands of Zakynthos, Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Rhodes, and Cyprus, among others. The Romaniotes are historically distinct and still remain distinct from the Sephardim, who settled in Ottoman Greece after the 1492 expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
A majority of the Jewish population of Greece was killed in the Holocaust after Axis powers occupied Greece during World War II. They deported most of the Jews to Nazi concentration camps. After the war, a majority of the survivors emigrated to Israel, the United States, and Western Europe. Today there are still functioning Romaniote Synagogues in Chalkis which represents the oldest Jewish congregation on European ground, in Ioannina, Athens, New York and Israel.
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 121 in the Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 121 in the Kahal Kadosh Yashan Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece. The video was recorded by an amateur Israeli tourist on Sunday, March 30, 2014 during the ceremony for the 70 years from the Holocaust of the Jews of Ioannina. More than 500 people from all over the world attended this moving ceremony organized by the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) and the historical Romaniote local Jewish Community.
“Kaddish” prayer by cantor Haim Ischakis in Ioannina
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings “Kaddish” prayer in the Kahal Kadosh Yashan Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece. His father, also a cantor, was one of the of the few Holocaust survivors from Ioannina. This video was recorded on Sunday, March 30, 2014 during the ceremony for the 70 years from the Holocaust of the Jews of Ioannina. More than 500 people from all over the world, including ambassadors, ministers and other officials, attended this very moving ceremony organized by the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) and the historical Romaniote local Jewish Community.
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 83 in the Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis sings Psalm 83 in the Kahal Kadosh Yashan Synagogue of Ioannina, Greece. The video was recorded by an amateur Israeli tourist on Sunday, March 30, 2014 during the ceremony for the 70 years from the Holocaust of the Jews of Ioannina. More than 500 people from all over the world attended this moving ceremony organized by the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) and the historical Romaniote local Jewish Community.
Cantor Haim Ischakis performs El Maleh Rachamim prayer in Ioannina, Greece
Cantor Haim Ischakis performs El Maleh Rachamim at the Kahal Kadosh Yashan Synagogue in Ioannina, Greece. The video was recorded by an amateur Israeli tourist on Sunday, March 30, 2014 during the ceremony for the 70 years from the Holocaust of the Jews of Ioannina. More than 500 people from all over the world attended this moving ceremony organized by the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) and the historical Romaniote local Jewish Community.
SHOFAR AT THE SYNAGOGUE OF IOANNINA
Cantor Haim Ischakis blows the Shofar at the Kahal Kadosh Yashan Romaniote Synagogue of Ioannina just after a commemoration service for the victims of the Holocaust. This video was recorded by a member of the French medical association Alpha Omega during their visit to Ioannina.