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Farewell to Salonica: City of the Crossroads
Leon Sciaky
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In this enchanting and moving memoir, Leon Sciaky describes his childhood before the FirstWorld War in a prosperous, loving Jewish family in the cosmopolitan city of Salonica (nowThessaloniki in Greece). Under the Ottoman Empire, the city's diverse communities - Jews,Muslim Turks, Orthodox Greeks and Bulgarians - met, traded and lived alongside each otherday-to-day in an atmosphere of tolerance.Farewell to Salonica offers a fascinating insight into a lost society in which an older tradition ofmutual respect was finally overcome by the pressures of nationalism and war, the after-effects ofwhich are felt in the region to this day.
In this enchanting and moving memoir, Leon Sciaky describes his childhood before the FirstWorld War in a prosperous, loving Jewish family in the cosmopolitan city of Salonica (nowThessaloniki in Greece). Under the Ottoman Empire, the city's diverse communities - Jews,Muslim Turks, Orthodox Greeks and Bulgarians - met, traded and lived alongside each otherday-to-day in an atmosphere of tolerance.Farewell to Salonica offers a fascinating insight into a lost society in which an older tradition ofmutual respect was finally overcome by the pressures of nationalism and war, the after-effects ofwhich are felt in the region to this day.
Product Details
Publisher
The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909961234
SKU
V9781909961234
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99-50
About Leon Sciaky
Leon Sciaky was born in 1894 in Salonica. His family left their homeland in 1915, settling in New York City. Sciaky lived in America with his wife, Frances, and son until his death in 1958. He taught at a number of progressive schools and camps and, in his last years, owned and operated a school and camp with Frances.Neil Barnett ... Read more
Reviews for Farewell to Salonica: City of the Crossroads
'It is nostalgic, beautifully written and illuminating...' -The Sunday Times