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Traditions and Customs of the Sephardic Jews of Salonica
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Sephardic cooking in Salonica was based, until the Greek occupation of 1912, on sesame seed oil, which in the Judeo-Spanish dialect was called by the name of azeite de giungili…

Contributor:

Michael Molho

Places:

Salonika, Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1940

Subjects:

Anthropology, Food and drink, Cities, Holidays, Sabbath

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, History, Historical Writing
A Proposal to Make Salonica an International City
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To the Committee of the Zionist Organization in Berlin Salonica, January 3, 1913 Mr. President, The question of Macedonia was addressed in London and will soon be resolved. What will be done with…

Contributor:

David Florentin

Places:

Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Zionism, Cities, Economic life, Nationalism, Jewish identity

Categories:

Political Culture, Reportage
The Coveted City: Salonika
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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

Subjects:

Cities, Dress, Jewish identity, Muslim-Jewish relations, Class

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, History, Historical Writing