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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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