Greece--a Jewish History »

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.

"Greece--a Jewish History is a superb book, one in whose company I would include very few that I've read over the past five, maybe even ten, years. The story Fleming tells is an incredible--and moving--reading experience. The best comprehensive account in English of the 'Greek' Jewish experience, it is written in an easy and fluid style that allows for the drama of the story to come through gradually until, in the Auschwitz years, it becomes almost overwhelming. It is a masterful piece of research and historical craftsmanship. The story of Greek Jewry has found its historian. This wonderful book also announces Fleming as, among other things, a Jewish historian of the first order."--David Myers, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Jay Levinson - Jewish Magazine

This is not a 'religious book' meant to inspire. It is the very well told story of a once flourish Jewish community whose history must never be forgotten.

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 Venizélos 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