Joseph Nehama

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Joseph Nehama (March 17, 1881 – October 29, 1971) was a Jewish educator and historian from Salonika. He worked as a banker and survived the Holocaust by fleeing to Athens. After the war, he became an advocate for Zionism.

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Biography Nehama was born on March 17, 1881, in Salonika, Ottoman Empire. He was a relative of the reform rabbi Judah Nehama, and studied at the Ecole Normale Orientale, the teacher training school of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Paris. In his capacity as teacher and school principal of the local Alliance Israélite Universelle, Nehama devoted his life to educating several generations of Salonikan youth. Along with being a teacher, he wrote about the histories of the Salonika Jewish Community, ultimately publishing a seven volume set in 1913 through France. He published under the pseudonym 'Pepo Risal'. As a writer, Nehama would become noteworthy not only for his histories of the diaspora community, but for his work on Judaeo-Spanish. He would create and publish a comprehensive Judaeo-Spanish to French dictionary. His dictionary, seen as more of an encyclopedia due to its extensiveness, would be instrumental in standardizing the language. Nehama would become a local community leader for the non-Zionist faction. He was a key community leader in the 1930s who encouraged Jews to stay in Salonika and not immigrate to British Palestine. He would be identified as a Maskilim leader due to these positions and advocacy. During World War I…Citește mai mult