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Title: Greece--a Jewish History
Condition: New
Author: K. E. Fleming
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0691146128
EAN: 9780691146126
ISBN: 9780691146126
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Genre: History
Release Date: 04/04/2010
Description: 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 emigres 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 397g
Release Year: 2010

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