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Greek Jewry

The Jews of Byzantium
$19.95
1204-1453
Bloch Publishing Company (© 1985)
ISBN 10: 0-8197-0703-1
ISBN 13: 978-08197-0703-1

Steven B. Bowman
Bowman presents the sources with a critical historical introduction for the rediscovery of Balkan and Aegean Jewry from the Fourth Crusade to the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. The book traces the fortunes of Greek Jews, their contact with co-religionists from Spain, Italy, the Crimea and their interaction with the variegated local populations and endemic conquerors of the region. From the beginning of the 13th century to the 16th century with special chapters on intellectual life, rabbinic interests, mysticism, Greek culture and the social and economic dimension.

The Holocaust in Salonika
$19.95
Eyewitness Accounts
Volume I
Sephardic House/Bloch (©2002)
ISBN 10: 0-8197-0753-8
ISBN 13: 978-08197-0753-6

Translated from Greek and Judeo-Spanish with introductions and notes by Isaac Benmayor. Introductory essay by Steven Bowman
The accounts presented here are three of the basic sources for the post war memory of the Holocaust among Salonikan Jews. They constitute the first official witness of those tragic years supplemented in succeeding years by a continuing current of personal memoirs in half a dozen languages.

A Liter of Soup and Sixty Grams of Bread
$14.95
The diary of prisoner number 109565
Volume II
Sephardic House/Bloch (©2003)
ISBN 10: 0-8197-0763-5
ISBN 13: 978-08197-0763-4

Heinz Salvator Kounio
Adapted and translated by Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos
On March 15, 1943 the first Greek transport left from Salonika an arrived at Auschwitz on March 20. It was the beginning of the end of Greek Jewry. Among the 2,800 deported Jews was the 15-year old Heinz Kounio. Wrenched abruptly from a comfortable upper-middle class home, Heinz found himself immersed in the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. Included in this volume are the previously unpublished documents from the archives of Auschwitz-Birkenau directly relating to the demise of Greek Jewry.

Isaac Bourla
In addition to the narration of his daily life in the camps, Isaac Bourla jotted down the thoughts, impressions and feelings of the young idealistic boy that he was then, the boy who was suddenly taken from one world and transplanted in another completely alien one. Like millions of other people he would never have believed that such a world existed. After the two darkest years of his life he emerged from this hell realizing to just what extent the human conscience can be debased, to what levels of degradation a human being can be led, and how much can be endured to secure one’s survival.

Yannina
$19.95
A Journey to the Past
Published for the Association of Friends of Greek Jewry by Bloch Publishing Company (©2004)
ISBN 10: 0-8197-0765-1
ISBN 13: 978-08197-0765-9

Eftihia Nachmias Nachman
Edited by Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos and Isaac Dostis
Yaninna-Journey to the Past is a journey through time to a precious Romaniote Greek-Jewish community that no longer exists, destroyed by the Holocaust in 1944. Frozen in time, recorded by one who lived and loved it, the “journey” captures a life that is no more and, until now with the publication of this book, ran the risk of disappearing from memory forever.

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