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Farewell to Salonica
Location(s): Thessaloniki (Salonika)
Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
Era(s): Early 20th Century
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.
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