Jewish community of Tire, Turkey

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• THE JEWS OF TIRE, TURKEY Video
• The Jews of Tire, Turkey by Laurence Abensur-Hazan

TIRE, IZMIR PROVINCE, TURKEY

Available: Tire, Izmir Province Turkey Marriage, Funeral, School Records, Photos of the Gravestones.

I have the 1904 census records as well as the marriage, funeral, school etc. records from 1927 to 1960. I also have nearly 200 photos of the gravestones. I will try to share some of them with you. Thanks to all contributors in advance. Murat Kaya Sanus

Tire تيره‎ is a populous district, as well as the center town of the same district, in İzmir Province in western Turkey. There is a Jewish community. According to Avram Galante, first Jews were exiled to Tire during Alexander the Great. The majority of the community was the Sephardic Jews who have sattled at 1500's. Upto 1948 they lived in peace with the Muslim and Orthodox Greek communities.

After the founding of Israel, many of them migrated and at 1960's the community was finished.

• See Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy, Volume 14
• https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/jgcd.php?get=y&dist1930=İzmir
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_İzmir