Download or read book Salonica City of Ghosts written by Mark Mazower and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Jewish Community of Salonika written by Bea Lewkowicz and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a pioneering study of the often forgotten Sephardi voices of the Holocaust. It is an account of the Sephardi Jewish community of the Greek city of Salonika, which at one point numbered 80,000 members, but which was almost completely annihilated during the German occupation of Greece in the Second World War. Through her systematic series of interviews with the remnants of this once-flourishing community, the author reawakens the communal memory and is able to show how individual identities and memories can be seen to have been shaped by historical experience. She traces the radical demographic and political changes Salonika itself has undergone, in particular the ethnic and religious composition of the city's population, and she interprets the narratives of the Salonikan Jewish survivors in the context of this changing landscape of memory and as part of contemporary Greece. With the vivid power of oral history and ethnography, this book highlights a significant aspect of the Jewish experience.
Download or read book An Ode to Salonika written by Renée Levine Melammed and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book An Ode to Salonika written by Renée Levine Melammed and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and moving source provides a rare entrée into a once vibrant world now lost.
Download or read book Salonika written by Stephen Gibbs and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silaem is like a younger brother to Midhel despite the span of time separating them. Midhel has been walking the lands of Salonika for hundreds of years while Silaem has yet to see a century. Still, the two wizards have grown close so close that Midhel reveals to Silaem his closely guarded secret. Then all hell breaks loose. Readers can witness exciting events unfold in Salonika, a riveting fantasy novel by Stephen Gibbs. Silaem is furious when Midhel reveals the existence of a gateway to another worlda world where there is little understanding of magic but where their weapons of war could reduce countries to rubble. Silaem is convinced that wizards are given power in order to control others. Midhel, however, believes in helping others fi nd their own destinies. He has no wish to abuse his power and has vowed to prevent the knowledge of either world escaping its boundaries by controlling and preventing the use of the gateway. Consumed by his lust for power, Sialem confesses that he has been exploring other dark paths of magic. Midhel is stunned by this revelation and knows that Silaem would now be a bitter enemy he must oppose. Troubled by glimpses of possible futuresall of which are darkMidhel fi nds a glimmer of hope in a fl eeting vision of a warrior in black battling Silaem. But where will he fi nd this warrior, and can he fi nd him in time before all of Salonika falls under Silaems dark rule? Readers can fi nd out as they immerse in this intriguing page-turner.
Download or read book The Gardeners of Salonika written by Alan Palmer and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Gardeners of Salonika' as Clemenceau contemptuously labelled them, could well be called the forgotten army of the First World War. Yet the Macedonian Campaign was, in Lord Hankey's words, 'the most controversial of all the so-called sideshows.' In his definitive The First World War (1999) Sir John Keegan hailed Alan Palmer for having written 'the best study of the Macedonian Front in English.' Palmer tells the story of this extraordinary polyglot army (it included, at various times, contingents from seven countries) from the first landing at Salonika in 1915 to the peace in 1918. He also illuminates the political and strategic background: the ceaseless argument in London and Paris over the army's future and the maze of Greek politics within which it and its commanders were enclosed. 'A masterly and colourful account of this, the most controversial and neglected sideshow of them all.' Guardian 'Not only a valuable contribution to history, but also an enthralling book' Sunday Times
Download or read book With the French in France and Salonika written by Richard Harding Davis and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written during the last three months of 1915, and the first month of 1916 in the form of letters from France, Greece, Serbia, and England. The author visited the French Front and was also on the French-British front in the Balkans.
Download or read book With a Woman s Unit in Serbia Salonika and Sebastopol written by Isabel Galloway Emslie Hutton and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jewish Salonica written by Devin Naar and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 that compelled Salonica's Jews to reimagine their community and status as citizens of a nation-state. Jewish Salonica is the first book to tell the story of this tumultuous transition through the voices and perspectives of Salonican Jews as they forged a new place for themselves in Greek society. 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 identity as Hellenic Jews during a period marked by rising nationalism and economic crisis as well as unprecedented Jewish cultural and political vibrancy. Salonica's Jews—Zionists, assimilationists, and socialists—reinvigorated their connection to the city and claimed it as their own until the Holocaust. Through the case of Salonica's Jews, Naar recovers the diverse experiences of a lost religious, linguistic, and national minority at the crossroads of Europe and the Middle East.
Download or read book The Salonika Front written by Arthur James Mann and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salonika Front by William Thomas Wood, first published in 1920, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Download or read book The Central Provinces Gazette written by Central Provinces (India) and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bihar Orissa Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Salonika Burning written by Gail Jones and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four historical figures cross paths amidst the chaos of war in this immersive and beautifully written tale by an award-winning Australian novelist
Download or read book The Holocaust in Salonika written by Steven B. Bowman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the memoirs of three eminent members of the Jewish community of Salonika. The advocate Yomtov Yacoel (or Giomtōv Giakoel) tried in 1942-early 1943 to negotiate with Nazi civilian representatives on the issue of Jewish forced labor and other issues; he died in 1944 in Auschwitz. Dr. Isaac Aaron Matarasso describes (in 1948) the ghetto of Salonika and deportations to the Nazi camps. His manuscript includes statistics on the deportations from Salonika, the number of Jews from all of Greece who perished in the Holocaust, three investigations into the fate of some Salonikan Jews during the Holocaust, and an investigation into medical experiments in Auschwitz, as well as the study by Mentes M. Molho "Assets of Jews of Salonika" (pp. 212-231). The businessman Salomon Mair Usiel describes (in 1953) the attempts of the Community Council to alleviate the fate of Salonika's Jews in 1942-43; after the war he was accused of collaboration with the Germans. All three authors also describe the first Nazi anti-Jewish measures in Salonika (the census of Jews, confiscations of Jewish property, resettlements, etc.). Pp. 1-22 contain an introduction by Bowman.
Download or read book The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia written by Isaac Landman and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Construction in Salonika Area Report of Area Engineer Grecian District Corps of Engineers written by Thomas F. Airis and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
