The JMG Collections

Include more than 10,000 original artifacts, which document the material evidence of 2,300 years of Jewish history and culture in Greece.

Municipality Museum of Ioannina - Society for Epirotic Studies
Short woman's jacket, lavender silk with gold stripes, cuffs and front opening embroidered with braided gold cords, knot buttons.
Short woman's jacket with high collar and long sleeves partly covering the hands, two different silk with red and blue stripes, on cuffs and front opening embroidered floral scrolls with braided gold cords.
Tik (Torah case) wrapper, striped gold brocade centrepiece, cobalt blue silk border trimmed and edged with various gold braids.
Two kinds of grey, blue and green striped silk brocade, front opening edged with gold braid.
Short woman's jacket with round neck and tight cuffs with button fastener, grey silk with rhombus pattern, front opening and neckline edged with gold braid, cuffs embroidered with braided gold cords.
Purple silk with laid and couched gold embroidery, central floral ornament, corner motifs and foliate border, ribbon ties at both ends, probably belonged to the local Jewish community.
Tik (Torah case) wrapper, grey-blue irregular striped silk, broad border of faded embroidered cotton, probably made of garment sections.
For Torah ark curtain, black velvet with gold embroidered inscription, dedicated to the Old Synagogue, Ioannina, in memory of Hannah, daughter of Menahem Moses and wife of Moses Matathia Halevy, who died in 1903, by her family.
Cushion cover in secondary use as wall hanging (?), wine red silk with gold embroidery, central motif of double-headed eagle with face, surrounded by dogs, birds, poultry and stylized bouquets, probably belonged to the local Jewish community.
Tik (Torah case) wrapper, red cotton velvet centrepiece with sewn-on cutouts of light mint silk with gold embroidery (in secondary use), faded velvet border.
Bimah front cover, purple silk with gold embroidered blossoming branches, with suspension loops.
Tik (Torah case) wrapper, red velvet with mulitcoloured flower garland mad up of embroidery cutouts in secondary use, gold embroidered inscription, dedicated by Zoya in memory of her husband Joseph Matathia Halevi, who died in 1901.
Bimah front cover (?), purple silk with seven gold embroidered blossoming branches, with suspension rings.
Tik (Torah case) wrapper (?), purple silk with three gold embroidered blossoming branches, with suspension rings.
Tik (Torah case) wrapper (?), partly faded purple silk with three gold embroidered blossoming branches, with suspension rings.
Torah ark curtain, red-violet cotton with suspension rings, light orange and gold silk brocade centrepiece with floral pattern in vertical wavy lines.
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