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The Jewish Community of Salonica - History, Memory, Identity (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R718
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The Jewish Community of Salonica - History, Memory, Identity (Paperback, New): Bea Lewkowicz

The Jewish Community of Salonica - History, Memory, Identity (Paperback, New)

Bea Lewkowicz

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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 citys 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. With the vivid power of oral history and ethnography, this book highlights a significant aspect of t

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Imprint: Vallentine Mitchell
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2006
First published: March 2006
Authors: Bea Lewkowicz
Dimensions: 244 x 168 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-85303-580-0
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General
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LSN: 0-85303-580-6
Barcode: 9780853035800

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