Greece--a Jewish History

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-691-14612-6
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

K. 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 most part no longer exist and whose identity is a paradox in that it wasn't fully formed until after most Greek Jews had emigrated or been deported and killed by the Nazis. For centuries, Jews lived in areas that are now part of Greece. But Greek Jews as a nationalized group existed in substantial number only for a few short decades--from the Balkan Wars (1912-13) until the Holocaust, in which more than 80 percent were killed. Greece--a Jewish History describes their diverse histories and the processes that worked to make them emerge as a Greek collective. It also follows Jews as they left Greece--as deportees to Auschwitz or émigrés to Palestine/Israel and New York's Lower East Side. In such foreign settings their Greekness was emphasized as it never was in Greece, where Orthodox Christianity traditionally defines national identity and anti-Semitism remains common.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fleming, K. E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums außerhalb Israels/Palästinas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

CHAPTER 1: Introduction 1

PART I: Independence and Expansion 13

CHAPTER 2: After Independence: "Old Greece" 15

CHAPTER 3: "New Greece": Greek Territorial Expansion 32

PART II: The "Sephardic Republic": Salonika to 1923 49

CHAPTER 4: Salonika to 1912 51

CHAPTER 5: Becoming Greek: Salonika, 1912-23 67

PART III: Normalization to Destruction 89

CHAPTER 6: Interwar Greece: Jews under Venize?los and Metaxas 91

CHAPTER 7: Occupation and Deportation: 1941-44 110

PART IV "The Greeks": Greek Jews beyond Greece 145

CHAPTER 8: Auschwitz-Birkenau 147

CHAPTER 9: Trying to Find Home: Jews in Postwar Greece 166

CHAPTER 10: Hellenized at Last: Greek Jews in Palestine/Israel 190

CHAPTER 11: Conclusion: Greek Jewish History--Greek or Jewish? 205

Notes 215

Index 265

Über Autor(innen)

Fleming, K. E.
K. E. Fleming is professor of history and Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization at New York University, where she also serves as associate director of the Remarque Institute.