Mediterranean and North African Jewish History Lectures: “The Rise and Fall of Salonica, the ‘Jerusalem of the Balkans'”
Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica, 1545 West University AvenueProfessor Devin Naar (University of Washington) will present the paper. Abstract: 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 for Salonica's Jews. This lecture tells the …