Salonika (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Salonika, also known as Thessaloniki, is the second-largest city in Greece and is located in the North-West of the country along the Aegean Sea. Salonika was once home to one of the largest Sephardic Jewish communities.

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Sources of Information on Salonika's Jewish Community

Books

Naar, Devin E. Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece.
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2016.

Saltiel, Leon. Do Not Forget Me: Three Jewish Mothers Write to Their Sons From the Thessaloniki Ghetto.
New York: Berghahn Books, 2021.

Rodrigue, Aron, and Sarah Abrevaya Stein. A Jewish Voice From Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel A-Levi.
Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Websites (Free Access)

Guide to the Records of the Jewish Community of Salonika ca. 1910-1939
Provided by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

The Last Days of Jewish Salonica What Happened to a 450 Year-Old Civilization by Dr. Cecil Roth
Originally published in Commentary, 1950. Website of the International Sephardic Leadership Council

Interview with a Young Jew From Salonika (August 7, 1943)
Originally published in Documents: The Jews in Greece, 1941–1944: Eyewitness Accounts, Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Vol. XII, Alexandros Kitroeff, No. #3, Fall 1985

SHORT HISTORY OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN GREECE
K.I.S. MOSES KONSTANTINHS, 3rd Edition 2006.

GERMANY'S POLICY AGAINST THE JEWS OF GREECE: THE ANNIHILATION OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF THESSALONIKI, 1941-1944 by Rena Molho
Originally published in Centropa Quarterly, Volume 10, Summer 2006.

"Social Organisation and Activity Of the Jewish Community in Thessaloniki" by Albertos Nar
Extract from Queen of the Worthy, Thessaloniki, History and Culture, Volume I, I.K. Hassiotis, Paratiritis, 1997, pp.266-295

Généalogie et histoire de la communauté juive de Salonique de 1900 à 1943 by Anne-Marie Faraggi Rychner

Papers and Articles

Apostolou, Andrew. "Greece must Acknowledge its Complicity in the Shoah." Forward, Mar 23, 2007, pp. 1. ProQuest.

Cattan, Nacha. "Salonika Survivors Demand Restitution: Greek Jews Seek Recognition for Sephardic Victims of the Holocaust." Forward, Jan 25, 2002, pp. 7. ProQuest.

Esformes, Maria. "Three Sefardic Folktales from Salonika, Greece." Shofar, vol. 19, no. 4, 2001, pp. 15. ProQuest.

Fleming, K. E. ""Salonica's Jews": A Metropolitan History." Jewish History, vol. 28, no. 3-4, 2014, pp. 449-455. ProQuest, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10835-014-9223-0.

Králová, Kateøina. "In the Shadow of the Nazi Past: Post-War Reconstruction and the Claims of the Jewish Community in Salonika." European History Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 2, 2016, pp. 262. ProQuest.

Naar, Devin E. 'The "Mother of Israel" Or the "Sephardi Metropolis"? Sephardim, Ashkenazim, and Romaniotes in Salonica.' Jewish Social Studies, vol. 22, no. 1, 2016, pp. 81-129. ProQuest, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jewisocistud.22.1.03.

Rosillo, Matilde M. "LA LEY DEL DESCANSO DOMINICAL EN SALÓNICA: IMPACTO EN LA COMUNIDAD JUDÍA A TRAVÉS DE LA PRENSA FRANCÓFONA (1924-1925)/THE QUESTION OF THE SUNDAY REST IN SALONIKA: IMPACT ON THE JEWISH COMMUNITY THROUGH THE FRANCOPHONE PRESS (1924-1925)." Bizantion Nea Hellas, no. 33, 2014, pp. 263-278. ProQuest.

Rozen, Minna. "Jews and Greeks Remember their Past: The Political Career of Tzevi Koretz (1933-43)." Jewish Social Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, 2005, pp. 111-166,190-191. ProQuest, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jss.2006.0007.

Rozen, Minna. "Money, Power, Politics, and the Great Salonika Fire of 1917", Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society n.s. 22, no. 2 (Winter 2017): 74–115. ProQuest, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jewisocistud.22.2.03.

Schleifer, Yigal. "Even the Cemetery has Disappeared." The Jerusalem Report, Jul 25, 2005, pp. 38. ProQuest.