Greece--a Jewish History / K. E. Fleming.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleming, K. E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Greece--History--21st century.

Jews.

Jews--Greece--History--20th century.

Greece--Ethnic relations.

Greece.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter 1. Introduction

PART ONE. Independence and Expansion

CHAPTER 2. After Independence: "Old Greece"

CHAPTER 3. "New Greece": Greek Territorial Expansion

PART TWO. The "Sephardic Republic": Salonika to 1923

CHAPTER 4. Salonika to 1912

CHAPTER 5. Becoming Greek: Salonika, 1912-23

PART THREE. Normalization to Destruction

CHAPTER 6. Interwar Greece: Jews under Venizélos and Metaxas

CHAPTER 7. Occupation and Deportation: 1941-44

PART FOUR. "The Greeks": Greek Jews beyond Greece

CHAPTER 8. Auschwitz-Birkenau

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

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

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

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780691146126

0691146128

9781400834013

1400834015

OCLC:

859537372