Jewish Community of Salonika: History, Memory, Identity
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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.
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Sephardi Jews Oral History and Biography Memory Holocaust Survivors Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
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978-0853035800
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Jewish Community of Salonika: History, Memory, Identity. . 2006: https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-gre10
