Salonica was once known as “The Mother of Israel.” However, the Jewish community’s former glories are now mostly found in archives of aging photographs and the fading memories of elderly survivors. It ...

The grand metropolises of northern Europe — Paris, London, Berlin — helped create the Western ideal of worldly, sophisticated cities. Western travelers imagined every great city as places with large ...

JTA — Exactly a century ago, on Aug. 18, 1917, a massive fire roared through the Mediterranean port city of Salonica, Greece, (or Thessaloniki as it is known today) then home to the largest and most ...

Current historiography approaches the passage of Salonican Jewry from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek nation-state from a macroscopic perspective. Concentrating on state-minority relations, it focuses ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Modern Greek historiography has rendered Salonican Jews invisible in the national historical narrative, while those occasional works appearing ...