ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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Jewish community member and guide Hella Kounio-Matalon takes podcast hosts Mark and David on a whistlestop tour of more than 2,000 years of history, in a city where Jews were the majority for five centuries.

This time:

  • Alexander the Great's Jewish entourage
  • They came in their thousands from Spain, Portugal and Italy
  • Inside today's community
  • A musical trip into the surviving pre-Holocaust synagogue 
  • When to travel, getting there, lodgings and food
  • Tracing the past: the excellent Jewish museum
  • Europe's largest cemetery is no more
  • Of Thessaloniki mansions
  • There's got to be a Chabad restaurant
Jewish-community expert Hella Kounio-Matalon shares a photo of her father, who survived Auschwitz, during a tour of the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki
Jewish-community expert Hella Kounio-Matalon shares a photo of her father, who survived Auschwitz, during a tour of the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki (Credit: @MarkDavidPod)

Mark and David host The Jerusalem Post Podcast – Travel Edition. They were the guests of the Thessaloniki Tourism Organization and the GreekNational Tourism Organisation.