Farewell To Salonica

Author : Leon Sciaky
Publisher : Haus Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9781907973352
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell to Salonica written by Leon Sciaky and published by Haus Pub.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon Sciaky, whose family were prosperous Jewish grain merchants anddescendents of the Sephardic Jewish exodus from Spain in 1492, grew up inthe vibrant city of Salonica (now Thessaloniki) in Macedonia in a remarkablypolyglot world where Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Bulgarian, French, Spanish andHebrew were all spoken regularly in the city’s busy streets and quays.In the early part of the book Sciaky’s recollections are achinglynostalgic and lyrical and describe an intimate and affectionate family existencewhere every day the young Sciaky would eat with his parents and his adoredgrandfather Nono on the oriental divan, exchanging stories and jokes. Butin retrospect, the city was doomed to destruction and as early as 1902 whenLeon Sciaky experienced an earthquake, he remarked: ‘One’s very conceptionof solidity, one’s feeling of security was suddenly destroyed’. Soon after, theyoung Sciaky witnessed the earliest examples of terrorism and a downwardspiral of violent attacks. His account of the end of a world is powerful andintense; when, as a young boy, he saw the look of terror in the face of a refugeepeasant, he likened it to ‘the animal dread of cattle in the slaughterhouse’.Farewell to Salonica was first published in America in 1946. It isa beautiful and touching memoir, which also offers a unique political andhistorical insight into the complex history of the breakdown of the TurkishEmpire. The Sciakys left for America in 1915 and like them many non-Greeks left Salonica following the Balkan Wars and World War I. All butsixteen hundred of the city’s fifty thousand Jewish inhabitants perished inNazi concentration camps during World War II.

Author : Leon Sciaky
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Total Pages : 262 pages
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Author : Leon Sciaky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909961234
Total Pages : 300 pages
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Download or read book Farewell to Salonica written by Leon Sciaky and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eva Brann
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 1589882792
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book Homage to Americans written by Eva Brann and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her latest collection of essays and lectures, Homage to Americans, Eva Brann explores the roots and essence of our American ways. In “Mile-high Meditations,” her flight’s late departure from the Denver airport prompts a consideration of her manner of waiting (i.e.,“being”). As she looks around, she notes (and compares to her own) the ways her fellow travelers pass their time. These observations lead her to wonder how each of us lives with ourselves and how we live together—and put up with one another. With these questions in mind, the next two essays carefully examine two famous political documents that have shaped American self-understanding: James Madison’s “Memorial and Remonstrance,” which is the essential argument for separation of church and state; and Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, which enlarged and refashioned our understanding of the American political character, first given formal expression in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. In “Paradox of Obedience,” a lecture delivered at the Air Force Academy, Brann considers the puzzling character of obedience in a country dedicated to liberty. The concluding piece, “The Empire of the Sun and the West,” takes us to Aztec Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest. What allowed Cortes and his handful of men to overcome a great empire? In pursuit of an answer, Brann describes a human type whose fulfillment she sees in the American character.

Author : Mark Mazower
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307427579
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salonica, City of Ghosts written by Mark Mazower and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until the twentieth century when the Greek army marched in, Muslims were forced out, and the Nazis deported and killed the Jews. As the acclaimed historian Mark Mazower follows the city’s inhabitants through plague, invasion, famine, and the disastrous twentieth century, he resurrects a fascinating and vanished world.

Author : Evander Lomke & Martin Rowe
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 1589882539
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Right Off the Bat written by Evander Lomke & Martin Rowe and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Looking over the legends and stars of both sports, explaining the rules, complete with glossary, Right Off the Bat is a fine assortment of knowledge, very much recommended for any curious sports fan."—Midwest Book Review It's been said that baseball and cricket are two sports divided by a common language. Both employ bats, balls, innings, and umpires. Fans of both steep themselves in statistics, revel in nostalgia, and toss around baffling jargon. In Right Off the Bat, baseball nut Evander Lomke and cricket buff Martin Rowe explain "their" sport—and their love of it—to the other sport's fans. You'll come away finding yourself as fascinated by legbreaks and inswingers as you are by knuckleballs and sliders (or vice versa). Are you a dyed-in-the-wool baseball fan who nevertheless harbors a nagging doubt as to whether Babe Ruth was, in fact, the greatest athlete ever to swing a bat? When you think of cricket, is what comes to mind stuffy Victorians standing around in a field, twirling their mustaches and saying silly things like "Howzat" or "googly"? Or are you a staunch cricket fan who sometimes wonders whether a screwball is really as difficult to execute as a doosra? Do you ask yourself where the thrill is in watching a ball sail 400 feet over a wall and just past the outstretched fingers of a fielder wearing a glove (and all for a paltry one run)? Well, step right up and take a seat—you've got a lot to learn (for example, the very first international cricket match was played in the United States). And Right Off the Bat is just the book for you.

Author : Diane Matza
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874518900
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sephardic-American Voices written by Diane Matza and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking literary anthology reveals the nature and history of a lesser-known but vital branch of Jewish culture.

Author : Elli Kohen
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761836001
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Turkish Jews and Sephardim written by Elli Kohen and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents aliving history of the Turkish Jews. Author Elli Kohen attempts to combine the patience of the chronicler with the folksy humor of the storyteller, without undermining the presentation of the Sephardic Jews cultural history.

Author : Giorgos Antoniou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108679951
Total Pages : 397 pages
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Download or read book The Holocaust in Greece written by Giorgos Antoniou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the sizeable Jewish community living in Greece during the 1940s, German occupation of Greece posed a distinct threat. The Nazis and their collaborators murdered around ninety percent of the Jewish population through the course of the war. This new account presents cutting edge research on four elements of the Holocaust in Greece: the level of antisemitism and question of collaboration; the fate of Jewish property before, during, and after their deportation; how the few surviving Jews were treated following their return to Greece, especially in terms of justice and restitution; and the ways in which Jewish communities rebuilt themselves both in Greece and abroad. Taken together, these elements point to who was to blame for the disaster that befell Jewish communities in Greece, and show that the occupation authorities alone could not have carried out these actions to such magnitude without the active participation of Greek Christians.

Author : Massimo Bontempelli
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 1589880315
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chess Set in the Mirror written by Massimo Bontempelli and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy who is being punished finds himself transported to the strange world on the other side of a mirror, where he encounters living chess pieces, as well as everything and everyone that was ever reflected in the mirror.