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          Sardis Synagogue is a synagogue in Turkey's Manisa province. Sardis came under many foreign domination until he became part of the Roman Empire in 133 BCE. The city became the administrative center of Lydia, the Roman province. Following the devastating earthquake that took place in 17 AD, Sardes was rebuilt and maintained a wealthy life under Roman rule.

          According to the belief, Sardes had the Jewish community in the 3rd millennium BC because of King III. Antiochus encouraged the Jews to move from Sardis to various countries, including Babylon. Josephus Flavius ​​published a fatwa on behalf of Lucius Antonius in 50-49 BC: "Lucius Antonius ... sends [the people of Sardis] greetings. The Jews of Rome, who came to me, came to me and showed that they had established a parliament in their place by their ancestors. Therefore, upon their request, I ordered that these rights be protected in order to be able to be legalized and will be allowed accordingly. " The phrase "a place of their own" is generally considered to mean the Sardes Synagogue. Josephus Flavius ​​also states that Caius Norbanus Flaccus, the governor-general at the end of the 1st century BCE, allowed Jews in Sardis to practice their religion freely and even donate to the Temple of Jerusalem.
Archaeological excavations

Since 1958, Harvard and Cornell Universities have been sponsoring annual excavations in Sardes. This excavation, with 80 Greek and 7 Hebrew inscriptions and mosaic floors, was perhaps the most impressive synagogue of ancient times in the western diaspora. The discovery of the Sardes Synagogue led to the withdrawal of the assumptions of the last Roman period Judaism. In Aphrodisias, the inscriptions of the Goddesses / theosebeis are proof that the vitality of the Anatolian Jewish communities is integrated in the civil society of the Jews in Rome and that the scientists who assume that the Christian influence in the region is more than Judaism.
Manisa (Magnesya), Jewish Community

From the Byzantine period, there was a Romanyot Jewish community praying at the Etz HaHayim Synagogue. Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain after 1492 joined the Romanyot congregation of about one hundred families. These newcomers formed two synagogues called Lorca and Toledo. At the end of the 19th century, the Alliance Israelite Universelle opened two schools in 1896, one for boys in 1891 and one for girls. In the 20th century, 2000 of the Jewish community of 40,000 people lived in Manisa. The Greeks invaded Manisa in 1919 and withdrew in 1922, during which many of the venues, including many Jewish institutions, burnt to the ground. Most Jews left their communities and migrated to France, South Africa, the US and Israel. Manisa, which once had three Jewish cemeteries, has no Jewish population today.

The oldest of the cemeteries was damaged by the 1878 War. The wall was built around the second cemetery surrounded by empty fields in 1900. The third cemetery was established in the 1930s. Two ancient cemeteries have disappeared today. While he was writing his book, Avraham Galante stated that he had seen tombstones from the 16th century. New cemetery tombstone data Minna has been digitalized by Rozen; but these data have not yet been published.

 

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