קהילת יהודי יואנינה

בוכורופולוס

BECHOROPOULOS, BOHOROPOULOS

שמות משפחה נובעים מכמה מקורות שונים. לעיתים לאותו שם קיים יותר מהסבר אחד. שם משפחה זה נגזר מתכונה או כינוי אישי, או מתואר או מונח אחר אשר תיאר את מעמדה בכורופולוס החברתי של המשפחה במסגרת הקהילה היהודית.

שם המשפחה זה נגזר מהכינוי בכור אשר במסורת של היהודים הספרדים בארצות הבלקן ניתן לבן הבכור ביחד עם הסיומת פולוס שפירושה ביוונית "בנו של".

שם משפחה זה נפוץ אצל יהודים רומניוטים ביוון.   

בכורופולוס מתועד כשם משפחה יהודי עם אסתר בכורופולוס אשר נולדה בעיר יואנינה ביוון בשנת 1932 ונספתה בשואה.

דסקלקי, דאסקלקי

DASKALAKI

שמות משפחה נובעים מכמה מקורות שונים. לעיתים לאותו שם קיים יותר מהסבר אחד. שם משפחה זה נגזר ממונחים המציינים תפקידים או תארים בקהילה היהודית או מעיסוקים ומקצועות.

שם משפחה זה הוא צורת חיבה של המילה דסקלוס שפירושה ביוונית "מורה", "מלמד". שם זה מקביל לשם העברי מלמד.

דסקלקי מתועד כשם משפחה יהודי עם נלי דסקלקי לבית לוי מהעיר יואנינה ביוון אשר נולדה בשנת 1910 ונספתה בשואה.

Joseph Eliyia (1901–1931), poet, scholar, translator, Zionist, born in Ioannina, Greece (then part of the Ottoman Empire). While teaching at Alliance Israélite Universelle school, he became a supporter of the Zionist movement as well as of socialist and pacifist ideologies. Eliyia defended the rights of the working class and opposed the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922. Because of his radical positions he was arrested in 1924 for a short period of time. After 1925 he moved to Athens, where he felt safer, and studied at the Ecole Française d'Athènes graduating in 1930.

Eliyia authored 257 poems, written in Greek, some were published in periodicals in Athens and Ioannina, as well as about 200 entries dealing with Jewish topics for the Great Greek Encyclopaedia. He also translated into Greek the biblical books of Isaiah, Job, Ruth, Jonah and the Song of Songs, poems by the Hebrew medieval poets Judah Halevi and Ibn Gabirol and modern poetry by H.N. Bialik, S. Tchernichovsky, Zalman Shneour, David Frishman, and Y.L. Peretz.

In 1930 he accepted a teaching post in Kalkis, in northern Greece, the only Jew in the town. He died after contracting intestinal typhoid by consuming polluted water in Kilkis and reportedly being refused a sick leave by the school’s principal.  

Rae (Rachel) Dalven (1904-1992), author and translator, best known for translating into English the poems of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, born in Preveza, Greece (then part of the Ottoman Empire) into a Romaniote family. The family immigrated to the USA in 1909 settling in New York. Dalven studied at the Hunter College and then earned a PhD in English from New York University. She worked as a professor of English and drama at Ladycliff College in Highland Falls, NY, and later as a lecturer of Modern Greek Literature at New York University. Dalven was the editor-in-chief of The Sephardic Scholar at Yeshiva University and swerved as president of the American Society of Sephardic Studies and as a board member of the American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece. Dalven distinguished herself as a translator of modern Greek poetry. Her first translations were the poems of her nephew (by marriage) Joseph Eliyia (1901-1931), her other translations include works by the Greek poets Yannis Ritsos and Constantine Cavafy, at the time both of them unknown outside the Greek speaking audience. Daughters of Sappho (1994) is Dalve’s outstanding collection of translations from the works of Modern Greek female poets. Her academic works include The Jews of Ioannina, a history of the Romaniote community, numerous articles on the traditions, culture, and history of the Jews of Ioannina, and a biography of the Byzantine historian Anna Comnena.

Avraam Kalef-Ezra (born Avraham Baruch) (1913-1994), partisan and journalist, born in 1913 in Ioannina, Greece. A soldier in the Greek army at the start of WW II, he participated in the battles against the invading Italian forces in Greece and Albania. After the occupation of Greece by the German and Italian forces, he worked for Kiryx (“Herald”) newspaper in Ioannina. In 1942 he managed to escape using the false documents with the name Ioannis Konstantinou and went into hiding in the Preveza area where he became one of the first members of the Ethnikó Apeleftherotikó Métopo (EAM) - The National Liberation Front, the main Greek resistance movement during the occupation of Greece in WW II. Kalef-Ezra was in charge of editing and printing Drassi (“Action”), Machitis (“Fighter”), and other EAM underground newspapers that were distributed in the partisan controlled areas in Epirus in western Greece. He was unsuccessful in convincing the leadership of the Jewish community of Ioannina to fled the city and seek refuge in the mountains, despite his repeated appeals. His mother was among the Jews of Ioannina who were murdered in the Holocaust.

Moses Elisaf (b. 1954), physician, community leader, and politician, the first Jew to be elected mayor of a Greek city, born in Ioannina, Greece, into a Romaniote family of Holocaust survivors. He studied medicine at the University of Athens graduating in 1979. Between 1993-1994 he worked at the faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University. A professor of internal medicine at the Medical School of Ioannina University, he also served as president of the Central Board of the Jewish Communities of Greece and President of the Jewish Community of Ioannina. In 2019 he was elected Mayor of Ioannina. Elisaf is the co-editor and member of the editorial board of 24 internationally recognized medical journals, a reviewer for approximately 106 international medical journals, and author of over 450 medical articles. He has organized many conferences and symposia on the subject of hypertension, dyslipidemia, atherosclerosis and the treatment of risk factors for cardiovascular diseases.