Jewish Salonica
Touted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans," the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city''s incorporation into Greece in 1912 provoked a major upheaval that compelled Salonica''s Jews to reimagine their community and status as citizens of a nation-state. Jewish Salonica is ...
Touted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans," the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city''s incorporation into Greece in 1912 provoked a major upheaval that compelled Salonica''s Jews to reimagine their community and status as citizens of a nation-state. Jewish Salonica is ...
