Farewell to Salonica

Farewell to Salonica
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Publisher : Paul Dry Books Incorporated
Total Pages : 299
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ISBN-10 : 1589880021
ISBN-13 : 9781589880023
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Book Synopsis Farewell to Salonica by : Leon Sciaky

Download or read book Farewell to Salonica written by Leon Sciaky and published by Paul Dry Books Incorporated. This book was released on 2003 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the crossroads of the Eastern and Western worlds, Salonica -- now Greece's third largest city Thessaloniki -- was an oasis in a desert of conflicting powers and interests. A Turkish territory until 1912, the city was an economic centre of the Ottoman empire and a cultural centre of Sephardic Judaism. In this memoir, Leon Sciaky, the son of a Sephardic merchant family who immigrated to Turkey during the Spanish Inquisition, tells of growing up in the vibrant community that flourished in Salonica at the turn of the century. He introduces the Turkish sheiks and dervishes, Sephardic rabbis, Hungarian revolutionaries, Bulgarian farmers, Greek priests, Kurdish grocers, Albanian woodcutters, and French headmasters who populated this little Balkan world. Although his early years were idyllic, Sciaky's well-respected merchant family could not escape the violence of Salonica's constant lesions and struggles. Situated amidst peoples of different languages, religions, cultures, and national allegiances, Salonica was like a vividly set stage in a drama where these very diverse peoples lived, in peace and strife, vying for power and prosperity.


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