Blogs in September 2020

Farewell to Salonica 4th September 2020

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 –...

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The Gemini Contenders 1st January 1970

Under cover of darkness, in Salonika, Greece, December 1939 an order of monks endeavours to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps. The contents hidden for years could blow apart the Christian world....

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Spies of the Balkans 1st January 1970

Salonika 1940, Constantine Zannis the central character, policeman working on sensitive cases. As the war draws closer he becomes more involved in spying and Allied agent. He assists in the escape of Jews from Germany, to Turkey, and to...

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The Thread 1st January 1970

From the fly leaf: As Dimitri Komninos is born, a devastating fire sweeps through the thriving Greek city where Christians, Jews and Muslims live side by side. Five years later, Katerina Sarafogou’s home in Asia Minor is destroyed by...

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