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) — A century ago, on Aug. 18, 1917, a massive fire roared through the Mediterranean port city of Salonica, Greece, then home to the largest and most dynamic Ladino-speaking Sephardi Jewish ...
(JTA) — Exactly a century ago, on Aug. 18, 1917, a massive fire roared through the Mediterranean port city of Salonica, Greece, then home to the largest and most dynamic Ladino-speaking Sephardi ...
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 ...
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower 537pp, HarperCollins, £25 Two decades ago the young Mark Mazower hoisted his rucksack on to his back and walked away ...
This is the ninth part in a series about a journey across what used to be called Macedonia, which is now divided among Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, and Turkey. Walking from the Holocaust monument ...
They are called Deunmehs, meaning, ‘the converted,’ and are a feature of Salonica to-day. I should have said that Sabbatei’s strange adventure happened three hundred years ago. These Deunmehs are ...
One Saturday last quarter, my roommate and I got brunch at Salonica, the Greek diner a short walk from our apartment. This would be an unremarkable occurrence but for the fact that we had eaten lunch ...