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  • Farewell to Salonica

    City at the Crossroads

    by Leon Sciaky ...
    "A jewel of memory."—Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Book-of-the-Month ClubAt the crossroads of East and West, Salonica (now Thessaloniki) was an oasis in a swirl of conflicting powers and interests, a vibrant world of varied peoples, where Leon Sciaky grew up at the turn of the twentieth century. This Paul Dry Books rediscovered classic includes many photos courtesy of Leon Sciaky's son Peter, who has ... Read more

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  • The Grandees

    America's Sephardic Elite

    The New World's earliest Jewish immigrants and their unique, little-known history: A New York Times bestseller from the author of Life at the Dakota.In 1654, twenty-three Jewish families arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York) aboard a French privateer. They were the Sephardim, members of a proud orthodox sect that had served as royal advisors and honored professionals under Moorish rule in Spain ... Read more

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  • The Ten Tragedies of Euripides

    by Euripides ...
    This file includes 10 tragedies by Euripides, literally translated by Theodore Buckley. The plays are: HECUBA, ORESTES, PHOENISSAE (The Phoenician Virgins), MEDEA, HIPPOLYTUS, ALCESTIS, BACCHAE, HERACLIDAE, IPHIGENIA IN AULIS, and IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS. According to Wikipedia: "Euripides (ca. 480 BCE–406 BCE) was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being ... Read more

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  • My Silent Pledge

    A Journey of Struggle, Survival and Remembrance

    Series Book 2 - MiroLand
    A child survivor, a child of survivors and a grandchild of a survivor, Sidney Zoltak is all these things. His story about a family that struggled and endured, the generosity of those who saved them against all odds, and a vow never to forget is a remarkable journey through the Holocaust into a rich and full life. At eight, Sidney loses a middle class home and goes from the slow death of the ghetto ... Read more

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  • The Story of Mankind

    For Hansje and Willem:WHEN I was twelve or thirteen years old, an uncle of mine who gave me my love for books and pictures promised to take me upon a memorable expedition. I was to go with him to the top of the tower of Old Saint Lawrence in Rotterdam. ... Read more

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  • Byzantine Imperial Guardsmen 925–1025

    The Tághmata and Imperial Guard

    Series Book 187 - Elite
    The hundred-year period ending in 1025, from the reign of the Emperor Constantine VII to that of Basil II 'the Bulgar-Slayer', encompassed the last great era of Byzantine aggression and dominance in the Near East and Balkans.During that time, a succession of soldier-emperors challenged and defeated an array of opponents on land and at sea and reconquered vast swathes of territory. At the heart of ... Read more

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  • Where the Jews Aren't

    The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region

    by Masha Gessen ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    From the acclaimed author of The Man Without a Face, the previously untold story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia that reveals the complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the familiar narrative that begins with pogroms and ends with emigration.In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. The place was called ... Read more

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  • Rhodes and the Holocaust

    The Story of the Jewish Community from the Mediterranean Island of Rhodes

    by Isaac Benatar ...
    Rhodes and the Holocaust is the story of La Juderia, the Jewish community that once lived and flourished on Rhodes Island, the largest of the twelve Dodecanese islands in the Mediterranean Sea near the coast of Turkey. While the focus of the accounts of the Holocaust has for the most part been on the Jewish populations of Eastern and Middle Europe, little seems to be known of the events that ... Read more

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  • Jewish Salonica

    Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece

    by Devin E. Naar ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    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 ... Read more

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  • Greece: A Jewish History

    by K. E. Fleming ...
    "This innovative, soundly researched work . . . has filled a long-standing need for the story of Greek Jewry to be told fully." — Jewish Book WorldK. E. Fleming's Greece—a Jewish History is the first comprehensive English-language history of Greek Jews, and the only history that includes material on their diaspora in Israel and the United States. The book tells the story of a people who for the ... Read more

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  • A Jewish Athlete: Swimming Against Stereotype in 20th Century Europe

    by Helen Epstein ...
    A Jewish Athlete: Swimming Against Stereotype in 20th Century Europe by Helen Epstein (4,700 words and 28 illustrations)In the American film Airplane, a stewardess asks a passenger whether he would like something to read. "Do you have anything light?" the man asks. "How about Famous Jewish Sports Legends?" she offers.In fact, Jews in sports are anything but a joke: they've been winning Olympic ... Read more

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  • Homecoming

    Homecoming by Joseph Wechsberg (24,000 words, 24 illustrations)Published by Knopf in 1946 as an expanded version of a two-part New Yorker article.Joseph Wechsberg and his wife left Czechoslovakia for America in 1938. Sent with the US Army to liberate Europe from the Nazis, Wechsberg returns to Ostrava, the town where he grew up. Searching for his wife's parents, he discovers the devastation of ... Read more

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