Farewell to Salonica - City at the Crossroads (Paperback, 1st Paul Dry Books ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Paul Dry Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2003
First published:	June 2003
Authors:	Leon Sciaky
Dimensions:	140 x 215 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
Edition:	1st Paul Dry Books ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-58988-002-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > True stories > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	1-58988-002-1
Barcode:	9781589880023

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