Farewell to Salonica
Farewell to Salonica
Résumé
Leon Sciaky describes his childhood before the First World War in a prosperous, loving Jewish family in the cosmopolitan city of Salonica. Under the Ottoman Empire, the city's diverse communities - Jews, Muslim Turks, Orthodox Greeks and Bulgarians - met, traded and lived alongside each other day-to-day in an atmosphere of tolerance.
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Farewell to Salonica by Leon Sciaky
Leon Sciaky describes his childhood before the First World War in a prosperous, loving Jewish family in the cosmopolitan city of Salonica. Under the Ottoman Empire, the city's diverse communities - Jews, Muslim Turks, Orthodox Greeks and Bulgarians - met, traded and lived alongside each other day-to-day in an atmosphere of tolerance.LEON SCIAKY was born in Salonica in 1893, and emigrated to the United States in 1915. After studying engineering, he ran a pioneering children’s camp. He and his family moved to Mexico in 1953, where he died in 1958.
NEIL BARNETT, who wrote the introduction to this volume, is a journalist specialising in the Balkans and has for the Independent and the Economist. He is the author of a biography of Tito.
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9781909961234 |
| ISBN 10 | 190996123X |
| Titre | Farewell to Salonica |
| Auteur | Leon Sciaky |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus |
| Année de publication | 2016-10-01 |
| Nombre de pages | 300 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |