Farewell to Salonica (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
300
Utgivningsdatum
2016-10-01
Förlag
The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus
Dimensioner
199 x 128 x 24 mm
Vikt
264 g
ISBN
9781909961234

Farewell to Salonica

City of the Crossroads

Häftad,  Engelska, 2016-10-01
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In this enchanting and moving memoir, Leon Sciaky describes his childhood before the FirstWorld War in a prosperous, loving Jewish family in the cosmopolitan city of Salonica (nowThessaloniki in Greece). Under the Ottoman Empire, the city's diverse communities - Jews,Muslim Turks, Orthodox Greeks and Bulgarians - met, traded and lived alongside each otherday-to-day in an atmosphere of tolerance.Farewell to Salonica offers a fascinating insight into a lost society in which an older tradition ofmutual respect was finally overcome by the pressures of nationalism and war, the after-effects ofwhich are felt in the region to this day.

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Leon Sciaky was born in 1894 in Salonica. His family left their homeland in 1915, settling in New York City. Sciaky lived in America with his wife, Frances, and son until his death in 1958. He taught at a number of progressive schools and camps and, in his last years, owned and operated a school and camp with Frances.Neil Barnett is a journalist specialising in the Balkans, covering the region for The Independent, The Economist and Jane's Intelligence Review. He is also the author of the biography Tito (Haus Publishing).