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) — 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, then home to the largest and most dynamic Ladino-speaking Sephardi ...

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 ...

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 ...

Salonica was once known as “The Mother of Israel.” However, the Jewish community’s former glories are now mostly found in archives of aging photographs and the fading memories of elderly survivors. It ...

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 ...

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 ...