Langbeschreibung
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Is Salonica Jewish?1. Like a Municipality and a State: The Community2. Who Will Save Sephardic Judaism?: The Chief Rabbi3. More Sacred than Synagogue: The School4. Paving the Way for Better Days: The Historians5. Stones that Speak: The CemeteryConclusion: Jewish Salonica-Reality, Myth, Memory