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Jewish Salonica: between the Ottoman Empire and modern Greece

by Naar, Devin E.

fromStanford studies in Jewish history and culture

0 Type: Book

Devin E. Naar traveled the globe, from New York to Salonica, Jerusalem, and Moscow, to excavate archives once confiscated by the Nazis. Written in Ladino, Greek, French, and Hebrew, these archives, combined with local newspapers, reveal how Salonica's Jews fashioned a new hybrid…

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Jewish Salonica: between the Ottoman Empire and modern Greece

by Naar, Devin E.

fromStanford studies in Jewish history and culture

0 Type: Book

Touted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans," the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city's incorporation into Greece in 1912 provoked a major upheaval th…