Greece--a Jewish History / / K. E. Fleming.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Fleming, K. E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 19 halftones. 1 map.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; PART ONE. Independence and Expansion --; CHAPTER 2. After Independence: "Old Greece" --; CHAPTER 3. "New Greece": Greek Territorial Expansion --; PART TWO. The "Sephardic Republic": Salonika to 1923 --; CHAPTER 4. Salonika to 1912 --; CHAPTER 5. Becoming Greek: Salonika, 1912-23 --; PART THREE. Normalization to Destruction --; CHAPTER 6. Interwar Greece: Jews under Venizélos and Metaxas --; CHAPTER 7. Occupation and Deportation: 1941-44 --; PART FOUR. "The Greeks": Greek Jews beyond Greece --; CHAPTER 8. Auschwitz-Birkenau --; CHAPTER 9. Trying to Find Home: Jews in Postwar Greece --; CHAPTER 10. Hellenized at Last: Greek Jews in Palestine/Israel --; CHAPTER 11. Conclusion: Greek Jewish History-Greek or Jewish? --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400834013; 9783110662580; 9783110413434; 9783110442502; 9783110459531
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400834013
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: K. E. Fleming.

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 émigrés 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.