Farewell to Salonica

City of the Crossroads

Leon Sciaky author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus

Published:1st Oct '16

Should be back in stock very soon

Farewell to Salonica cover

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.

'It is nostalgic, beautifully written and illuminating...' -The Sunday Times

ISBN: 9781909961234

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300 pages