Monastir Without Jews

Monastir Without Jews
Author: Žamila Kolonomos
Publisher: Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

Last Century of a Sephardic Community

Last Century of a Sephardic Community
Author: Mark Cohen
Publisher: Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2003
Genre: Bitola (Macedonia)
ISBN:

Discusses the history of the final century of the Jewish community of Monastir (now Bitola) in Macedonia, which originated in the Ottoman Empire and ended its days under occupation by Nazi-allied Bulgaria. Ch. 9 (pp. 169-189), "The Holocaust", recounts the nazification of policies toward the Jews in Bulgarian-occupied Macedonia, where Nuremberg-like laws and ghettoization were introduced, followed by Aryanization of businesses and robbery by taxation. Registration of all Jewish adults in Bulgaria facilitated deportation which, due to protests by prominent Bulgarian non-Jews, was limited to stateless residents of Bulgarian-occupied territories. Almost all of Monastir's Jews were deported to Treblinka, where 3,276 of them were gassed. The small number who escaped deportation were spared as doctors or foreign nationals. Some Jews managed to flee and join partisan groups. Pp. 203-250 contain a list of names (with addresses, ages, and occupations) of the Jews from Monastir who were killed in Treblinka.

From Thessaloniki to Auschwitz and Back

From Thessaloniki to Auschwitz and Back
Author: Erika Kounio-Amarilio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The Library of Holocaust Testimonies is a series of accounts of the experiences of those who suffered under the hands of the Nazis during the attempt to carry out the final solution, or, the extermination of the Jews in Europe.

The Holocaust in Greece

The Holocaust in Greece
Author: Giorgos Antoniou
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108679951

For the sizeable Jewish community living in Greece during the 1940s, German occupation of Greece posed a distinct threat. The Nazis and their collaborators murdered around ninety percent of the Jewish population through the course of the war. This new account presents cutting edge research on four elements of the Holocaust in Greece: the level of antisemitism and question of collaboration; the fate of Jewish property before, during, and after their deportation; how the few surviving Jews were treated following their return to Greece, especially in terms of justice and restitution; and the ways in which Jewish communities rebuilt themselves both in Greece and abroad. Taken together, these elements point to who was to blame for the disaster that befell Jewish communities in Greece, and show that the occupation authorities alone could not have carried out these actions to such magnitude without the active participation of Greek Christians.

The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age

The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age
Author: William David Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 766
Release: 1984
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780521219297

Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.

Like Salt for Bread. The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Like Salt for Bread. The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Author: Francine Friedman
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 968
Release: 2021-11-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004471057

A numerically small Jewish community helped their ethnically embattled neighbors in a neutral, humanitarian way to survive the longest modern siege, Sarajevo, in the early 1990s.

Confessions of a Macedonian Bandit

Confessions of a Macedonian Bandit
Author: Albert Sonnichsen
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2007-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 160206153X

From February to November of 1906, California journalist Albert Sonnichsen made his way through the remnants of the Ottoman Empire, observing firsthand a country falling apart. Entrenched among a group of revolutionaries at war with the Greeks and Turks, he took special pleasure in seeking out the region's most notorious guerrillas (many of whom he captured in photographs). The prose is as taut and contemporary as the story is riveting-history as lived in the trenches, from one of the first "embedded" journalists. A native of San Francisco, ALBERT SONNICHSEN (1878-1931) worked as a foreign reporter for the New York Tribune, McClure's, and the New York Evening Post. He also wrote Ten Months a Captive Among Filipinos.

The Dönme

The Dönme
Author: Marc Baer
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 0804768676

This is the first study of the modern history, experience, and ethno-religious identity of the Dönme, the descendants of seventeenth-century Jewish converts to Islam, in Ottoman and Greek Salonica and in Turkish Istanbul.