Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece Gyora Benedek shopping around the globe

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ISBN13: 9781530760060

ISBN10: 1973655020

Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece Gyora Benedek shopping around the globeTouted as the Jerusalem of the Balkans, the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city's incorporation into Greece in 1912 provoked a major upheaval that compelled Salonica's Jews to reimagine their community and status as citizens of a nation state. Jewish Salonica is the first book to tell the story of this tumultuous