The grand metropolises of northern Europe — Paris, London, Berlin — helped create the Western ideal of worldly, sophisticated cities. Western travelers imagined every great city as places with large ...

(JTA) — A century ago, on Aug. 18, 1917, a massive fire roared through the Mediterranean port city of Salonica, Greece, then home to the largest and most dynamic Ladino-speaking Sephardi Jewish ...

JTA — Exactly a century ago, on Aug. 18, 1917, a massive fire roared through the Mediterranean port city of Salonica, Greece, (or Thessaloniki as it is known today) then home to the largest and most ...

(JTA) — Exactly a century ago, on Aug. 18, 1917, a massive fire roared through the Mediterranean port city of Salonica, Greece, then home to the largest and most dynamic Ladino-speaking Sephardi ...

Swiftly you enter another world. Old Salonica is beautiful, new Salonica is tawdry, cheap, and garish. Uphill there are no sidewalks, no gas, no electric light, and water is drawn from wells or ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Modern Greek historiography has rendered Salonican Jews invisible in the national historical narrative, while those occasional works appearing ...

This is the ninth part in a series about a journey across what used to be called Macedonia, which is now divided among Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, and Turkey. Walking from the Holocaust monument ...

A century ago, towards the end of World War I, Allied soldiers were engaged in fighting on the Salonica Front, near the Greek city now known as Thessaloniki. Those key battles, fought in the most ...

Current historiography approaches the passage of Salonican Jewry from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek nation-state from a macroscopic perspective. Concentrating on state-minority relations, it focuses ...

One Saturday last quarter, my roommate and I got brunch at Salonica, the Greek diner a short walk from our apartment. This would be an unremarkable occurrence but for the fact that we had eaten lunch ...