Present Day
Today a small number of Romaniotes live in Greece, out of the approximately 4,500 to 6,000 Jews living in Greece today, both from the Romaniotes and the Sephardi subgroups; mainly in Thessaloniki, Ioannina and Athens. About 3,500 people live in Athens, while another 1,000 live in Thessaloniki. There are also many in Israel and the U.S. (mainly New York). These communities, though they identify as Romaniotes, now use the Sephardic rite: the distinctive Romaniote rite does not survive except in the form of certain hymns used by communities such as Corfu.
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