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Farewell To Salonica
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Author : Leon Sciaky
language : en
Publisher: Haus Pub.
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Farewell To Salonica written by Leon Sciaky and has been published by Haus Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Jews categories.
Leon Sciaky, whose family were prosperous Jewish grain merchants anddescendents of the Sephardic Jewish exodus from Spain in 1492, grew up inthe vibrant city of Salonica (now Thessaloniki) in Macedonia in a remarkablypolyglot world where Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Bulgarian, French, Spanish andHebrew were all spoken regularly in the city’s busy streets and quays.In the early part of the book Sciaky’s recollections are achinglynostalgic and lyrical and describe an intimate and affectionate family existencewhere every day the young Sciaky would eat with his parents and his adoredgrandfather Nono on the oriental divan, exchanging stories and jokes. Butin retrospect, the city was doomed to destruction and as early as 1902 whenLeon Sciaky experienced an earthquake, he remarked: ‘One’s very conceptionof solidity, one’s feeling of security was suddenly destroyed’. Soon after, theyoung Sciaky witnessed the earliest examples of terrorism and a downwardspiral of violent attacks. His account of the end of a world is powerful andintense; when, as a young boy, he saw the look of terror in the face of a refugeepeasant, he likened it to ‘the animal dread of cattle in the slaughterhouse’.Farewell to Salonica was first published in America in 1946. It isa beautiful and touching memoir, which also offers a unique political andhistorical insight into the complex history of the breakdown of the TurkishEmpire. The Sciakys left for America in 1915 and like them many non-Greeks left Salonica following the Balkan Wars and World War I. All butsixteen hundred of the city’s fifty thousand Jewish inhabitants perished inNazi concentration camps during World War II.
Farewell To Salonica
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Author : Leon Sciaky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-10-01
Farewell To Salonica written by Leon Sciaky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-01 with categories.
Farewell To Salonica
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Author : Leon Sciaky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
Farewell To Salonica written by Leon Sciaky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with categories.
Farewell To Ottoman Salonica
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Author : Leon Sciaky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Farewell To Ottoman Salonica written by Leon Sciaky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Jews categories.
Farewell To Salonica
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Author : Leon Sciaky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
Farewell To Salonica written by Leon Sciaky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with Salonika (Greece) categories.
Sephardic American Voices
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Author : Diane Matza
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 1998-11
Sephardic American Voices written by Diane Matza and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11 with American literature categories.
A groundbreaking literary anthology reveals the nature and history of a lesser-known but vital branch of Jewish culture.
Terrible Fate
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Author : Benjamin Lieberman
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2013-12-16
Terrible Fate written by Benjamin Lieberman and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with History categories.
In the modern Greek city of Thessaloniki, the ruins of a vast Jewish cemetery lie buried under the city’s university. Nearby is the site of the childhood home of one of the founders of the modern Turkish state. These are tantalizing reminders of what was once the bustling cosmopolitan city of Salonica, home not just to Greeks but to thousands of Sephardic Jews, Turks, Bulgarians, and Armenians living and working peacefully alongside one another. Thessaloniki is just one example among many of what used to be. Over the past two centuries, ethnic cleansing has remade the map of Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East, transforming vast empires that embraced many ethnic groups into nearly homogenous nations. Towns and cities from Germany to Turkey still show traces of the vanished and nearly forgotten ethnic and religious communities that once called these places home. In Terrible Fate, Benjamin Lieberman describes the violent transformations that occurred in Salonica and hundreds of other towns and cities as the Ottoman, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and German empires collapsed, to be reborn as the modern nation-states we know today. His book is the first comprehensive history of this process that has involved the murder and forced migration of tens of millions of people. Drawing upon eyewitness accounts, contemporary journalism, and diplomatic records, Lieberman’s story sweeps across the continent, taking the reader from ethnic cleansing’s earliest beginnings in Bulgaria, Greece, and Russia in the nineteenth century, through the rise of nationalism, both world wars, the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and the rise and fall of the Soviet empire, up to the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Along the way he examines the decisive roles of political leaders—not only monarchs and dictators but also those who were democratically elected—as well as ordinary people who often required very little encouragement to rob and brutalize their neighbors, or who were simply caught up in the tide of history.
An Ode To Salonika
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Author : Renée Levine Melammed
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-30
An Ode To Salonika written by Renée Levine Melammed and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-30 with History categories.
Through the poetry of Bouena Sarfatty (1916-1997), An Ode to Salonika sketches the life and demise of the Sephardi Jewish community that once flourished in this Greek crossroads city. A resident of Salonika who survived the Holocaust as a partisan and later settled in Canada, Sarfatty preserved the traditions and memories of this diverse and thriving Sephardi community in some 500 Ladino poems known as coplas. The coplas also describe the traumas the community faced under German occupation before the Nazis deported its Jewish residents to Auschwitz. The coplas in Ladino and in Renée Levine Melammed's English translation are framed by chapters that trace the history of the Sephardi community in Salonika and provide context for the poems. This unique and moving source provides a rare entrée into a once vibrant world now lost.
Turco Jewish Relations In The Ottoman City Of Salonica 1889 1912
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Author : Eugene A. Cooperman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Turco Jewish Relations In The Ottoman City Of Salonica 1889 1912 written by Eugene A. Cooperman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Dönmeh categories.
Salonica City Of Ghosts
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Author : Mark Mazower
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Salonica City Of Ghosts written by Mark Mazower and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with History categories.
Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until the twentieth century when the Greek army marched in, Muslims were forced out, and the Nazis deported and killed the Jews. As the acclaimed historian Mark Mazower follows the city’s inhabitants through plague, invasion, famine, and the disastrous twentieth century, he resurrects a fascinating and vanished world.