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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, Journalism, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Reportage
How Does a Newspaper Survive?
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In order to survive, a newspaper needs numerous subscribers, the help of the community, paid publications, the aid of the friends of education, the generosity of the nation, and the support of the…

Contributor:

Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1877

Subjects:

Scholarship, Economic life, Community, Sephardic, Journalism

Categories:

Historical writing, Journalism, Firsthand accounts
Paraḥ mateh Aharon (The Staff of Aaron Had Sprouted)
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The rich and honorable Moshe haCohen, resident of the city Castoria may God protect it, says as follows: he has been given a bad wife, and that during their marital life…

Contributor:

Aaron ha-Kohen Peraḥia

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1701

Subjects:

Life cycle, Marriage, Divorce, Nonmonogamy, Muslim-Jewish relations, Journalism, Law, Responsa

Categories:

Law, Responsa, Reportage
Condemnation of Women Singing in Cafés on the Sabbath
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Along the quay, near the White Tower, there is a café where two young Jewish girls from Salonica sing every day, including Shabbat. In truth we do not find their behavior as low as that of other young…

Contributor:

Yeremiah (El Yoron)

Places:

Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1900

Subjects:

Piety, Sin, Sabbath, Civil disobedience, Cities, Journalism, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Journalism