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I am in the process of preparing a rather copious work on Salonica, its past, and its present. The history of the [Jewish] community has given me quite a headache. I have gone through a pile of…
Contributor:
Joseph Nehama
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1913
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It is you, modern girls, whom I address. The modern spirit has completely changed your natures. If the sages of old, who spoke so much about the wonderful strength of woman as opposed to man, found…
Contributor:
Reina ha-Kohen
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1898
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Notice, dear readers, that one of the foundations of Judaism is the belief (אמונה) in השארת הנפש, the abidingness of the soul, which means the immortality of the soul, for a person’s soul does not die…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Shaki
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1899
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What are the demands of the organized proletariat on this day [May 1]?
Above all the eight-hour workday. With eight-hour days we would gain work for thousands of unemployed men; we would gain time to…
Contributor:
Abraham Benaroya
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1911
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The city modernizes more and more. One hardly sees those baggy, dark, unsightly breeches of old, the ones that Muslims, Christians, and poor Jews still wore in the middle of the last century. Until…
Contributor:
Joseph Nehama
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1914
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I swear by the Eternal God and by His ten most holy commandments, which were given on Mount Sinai through Moses as lawgiver after the people had been freed from their bondage in Egypt, that I have…
Contributor:
Amatus Lusitanus
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1559