OCHRIDA

OCHRIDA
OCHRIDA (ancient Lychnidos), town on Lake Ohrid/Ochrida in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. There were Jews living in Ochrida during the Middle Ages. The scholar judah leon mosconi lived in Ochrida. He studied under Shemariah ha-Ikriti (the Cretan) and authored Even Ha-Ezer, a commentary on Abraham ibn Ezra's Torah commentary. Jews were probably moved from there under the Ottoman system of sorgun. It is therefore not surprising to find in Constantinople a Romaniot synagogue named after Ochrida. The Jews of Ochrida engaged in the preparation of furs and those of them who settled in kastoria developed the same profession there. There is no information on the Jews of Ochrida in recent times. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Perles, in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 2 (1893), 569–84. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: V.S. Bowman, The Jews in Byzantium 1204–1455 (1985). (Simon Marcus)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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