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New centre in Greek city will be lifeline for Sephardic Jews, mostly descendants of Spanish exilesFive centuries after they were expelled from Spain and eight decades after they were almost annihilated in the Holocaust, the small community of Sephardic Jews that lives on in the Greek city of Thessaloniki is looking to its past to help safeguard its future.On Tuesday, Thessaloniki’s Jewish community signed...

Priceless volume that survived centuries after exile of its persecuted owners finally returns to GaliciaOn a summer’s day in 1476 a scribe called Moses Ibn Zabarah put the finishing touches to an enormous and magnificently illustrated Hebrew Bible commissioned by the son of a wealthy Jewish family from Galicia, north-western Spain.“The blessed Lord grant that he study it, he and his children and his...