The Izmir Jewish festival.

The southern Aegean port city was once home to a large Jewish community.

A plaque in Hebrew and Greek, ending with the word shalom.

With 100,000 photos of 61,022 tombstones.

For kosher salami and pastrami, naturally.

Once home to a large, if overlooked, community.

Promising to buy books in synagogue?

Yom Kippur in a waning community.

Greek authorities prevented Jews from rebuilding.

The canary in the coal mine?

And the story of its repression.

A sustainable relationship cannot be built on hypocrisy and silence.

Was it a synagogue?

Memories of a forgotten Turkish community.