Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis' genocidal vision of the “Final Solution of the
Jewish Question.” Historians have estimated that between 1941 and 1944 up to three million …

" This book explores Jewish emigration from Palestine and Israel from 1945 to the early
1960s. It investigates the motivations behind emigration, the experiences of migrants in their …

Although Sephardim and Ashkenazim are often considered to be two distinct Jewish groups
that rarely intersected, a close look at the case of Salonica (Thessaloniki), a port city in …

T he last chief rabbi of the Jewish community of Salonika, Rabbi Tzevi Koretz (1933-43), is
engraved in the historical memory of the survivors of SalonikanJewry and, by extension, in …

In January 1987, the Polish Catholic periodical Tygodnik Powszechny (Universal Weekly),
opposed to the Communist regime, published an article that provoked a fierce debate …

At the end of World War II, thousands of European Jews who had found refuge in Palestine
during the war sought to return to their countries of origin through a repatriation program …

Through the poetry of Bouena Sarfatty (1916-1997), An Ode to Salonika sketches the life
and demise of the Sephardi Jewish community that once flourished in this Greek crossroads …

In August 1917, afire broke out in a crowded quarter on the northwest side of Salonika. It
eventually destroyed the historical center of the city, including the homes and property of …

Faced with vast human and economic losses, the small number of Jews in Greece who had
survived the Second World War found themselves shortly afterwards in great need of social …

Abstract The Thessaloniki Port Archives, whose collections were recently catalogued, cover
the history of the waterfront from the 1920s to the present day. Among their various …