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Jewish Identities in Poland and America: The Impact of the Shoah on Religion and Ethnicity
Author(s): Rejak, Sebastian
Date: 2011
Topics: Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust Survivors, Holocaust, Religious Belief, Religious Observance and Practice, Secularity
Jewish Community of Salonika: History, Memory, Identity
Author(s): Lewkowicz, Bea
Date: 2006
Topics: Sephardi Jews, Oral History and Biography, Memory, Holocaust Survivors, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Abstract: 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.