Who are the Romaniote Jews?

Question

Does it also refer to the "indigenous" Jews of the Italian peninsula, especially the ancient Roman Jewish community?

Okay according to Wikipedia it refers to the first Jews of Greece and the Balkans. However on the webpage of the Israeli ministry of Education, Culture and Sport it says that Romaniotes are the ancient Roman Jewish community , see here:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjancqaRRSSFeq2fD1Ab6Frsy6IX?qid=20070214000418AAxm8JU

Sorry wrong URL the link is (to those of you who can read Hebrew):

http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:wppAuK4LeEsJ:www.amalnet.k12.il/meida/art_megama/Jart.doc+%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%95%D7%98%D7%99%D7%9D&hl=iw&ct=clnk&cd=14

Answer 1

The Romaniotes are among the most ancient extant Jewish communities anywhere in the world and the winds of twentieth century change appear to have finally swept it closer to its end. Lost in the mists of Jewish wandering and settlement that brought their ancestors to Greece 2300 years ago, the Romaniotes withstood the vicissitudes of history - from the rise and fall of empires to the attempts at coerced religious conversion, only to succumb in their Greek homeland to the devastation of the Holocaust, and in America, to the powerful influences of freedom, economic opportunity and the material affluence of its more open society.

Answer 2

No, the Romaniote Jews are the Jews of Greece.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romaniotes

Answer 3

It should refer to those Jews that transformed into Roman citizens, like Joseph Flavius. they were, after their transformation, mostly settled in Italy and Greece.

Answer 4

I think so!

All the best!/