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SUMMARY:Leon Saltiel\, “Dehumanizing the Dead: The Destruction of Thessaloniki’s Jewish Cemetery during World War II”
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will discuss the destruction of Thessaloniki’s ancient and vast Jewish cemetery which commenced in December 1942. The cemetery\, located close to the city center\, had long become the object of a dispute between the Christian and Jewish communities\, with the former wishing to expropriate it in favor of the city’s new University and the latter trying to preserve the sanctity and history of the place. In the end\, a few months before the living Jews of Thessaloniki were deported\, the cemetery of the dead Jews was destroyed. The destruction of the cemetery is often referred to as the harbinger of the Holocaust in Thessaloniki because it took place three months before the deportations commenced. However\, this unique event in occupied Europe is not directly related to the Nazi “Final Solution.” In no other city in Europe did the Nazis completely destroy Jewish cemeteries and all\, with very few exceptions\, continued to exist after the war\, even on German soil. Due to the time coincidence of the different anti-Jewish measures as well as the convergence of the same protagonists and victims\, the narration becomes linear and ignores a series of crucial factors. The independent study of the destruction of the cemetery can shed light on the unknown aspects of this story and offers a new narration to the events that followed. \nLeon Saltiel holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Greek History from the University of Macedonia\, in Thessaloniki\, Greece\, and has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva\, Switzerland\, and at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His publications include The Holocaust in Thessaloniki: Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution\, 1942–1943 (Routledge 2020) and ‘Do Not Forget Me’: Three Jewish Mothers Write to their Sons from the Ghetto of Thessaloniki (Alexandria 2018). \nTo participate in this event\, please RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/leon-saltiel-university-of-macedonia-dehumanizing-the-dead-the-destruction-of-thessalonikis-jewish-cemetery-during-world-war-ii/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Jewish Greece,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Rena Molho\, “Problems of Incorporating the Holocaust into the Greek Collective Memory”
DESCRIPTION:Tolerance of antisemitism and neo-Nazism in Greece in recent years shows that the Holocaust has not yet been incorporated into the Greek national consciousness. This could be (partly) because Greece did not commemorate the Holocaust until it became a member of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2005. By reviewing the reactions of the Greek authorities and citizens in Thessaloniki\, the city with 56\,000 Jews which was first to face the Nazi threat in 1941\, Dr. Molho will try to explain the Greek state’s sixty years delay in commemorating the murder of 62\,500 Jews\, or 87% of the Greek Jewish population. \n \nRena Molho is a Greek historian who focuses on the different aspects of Ottoman and Greek Jewish history and culture and more specifically that of the Jews of Salonika.  Molho studied European history at Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, and received a Doctor of Philosophy with distinctions from the University of Strasbourg. She has taken part in many symposiums\, television and radio programs\, in Greece and abroad\, and has published her research in Greek and international scientific books\, encyclopedias\, and journals. Her research has been supported with grants by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture in New York City and by the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in Los Angeles. In 1996\, she acted as senior interviewer and coordinator in Greece for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and has videotaped seventy Greek Holocaust survivors’ personal accounts. Molho has taught the history of the Jewish presence in Greece in seminars organized by the International Study Groups\, and since 1991 with a group of other historians\, she co-founded the Society for the Study of Greek Jewry. For eight years\, as of 1999\, she taught the history of Greek Jewry at Panteion University in Athens\, the first and only Greek academic institution to include the course of Jewish history in its curriculum in Greece until today. Her book The Jews of Thessaloniki\, 1856–1919: A Unique Community received the Athens Academy Award in December 2000 and in 2001 it was published in Greek by Themelion Publishing. After this\, it became a university handbook distributed to Greek students of Jewish history. From 2005 to 2007\, she was the Greek coordinator for Centropa\, a Vienna\, Austria-based Jewish historical institute which conducted a new series of audio interviews of Thessaloniki-born survivors who after 1945 returned and settled in Greece. She has published a great number of academic articles in all the major European languages as well as in Greek\, Hebrew\, and Turkish. In 2010\, she was decorated with the medal of the order of Ordre des Palmes Académiques for her contribution to the French academia. Among her latest books\, Salonica-Istanbul: Social\, Political and Cultural Aspects of Jewish Life (2005) comprises a collection of eighteen studies in English and French and was published by Isis Press. Her book Jewish Sites in Thessaloniki: Brief History and Guide (2009)\, published by Lycabettus Press in Athens\, became a best-seller\, and was also published in Greek (2010) and in German (2011). \nTo participate in this event\, please RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/rena-molcho-problems-of-incorporating-the-holocaust-into-the-greek-collective-memory/
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CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Jewish Greece,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Greek Language Day: Professor Kathryn Morgan\, “Know Thyself: Ancient Proverbs and the Road to Wisdom.”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Kathryn Morgan\, UCLA Department of Classics \n“Know Thyself: Ancient Proverbs and the Road to Wisdom” \nThe Sages of Ancient Greece were renowned for their pithy formulations of proverbial wisdom. Perhaps the most famous of these was the saying inscribed on the temple of Apollo at Delphi: “Know thyself!” (γνῶθι σεαυτόν)\, a command that had a long influence on Greek wisdom traditions\, including the thought of Socrates. This talk will examine how popular wisdom traditions were exploited and explored by thinkers who capitalized upon the density of expression characteristic both of proverbs and of ancient Greek. Brief and “laconic” formulations are like modern “soundbites\,” memorable but problematic: What are their advantages? What are their limits? \nKathryn Morgan is Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics at UCLA.  Her interests range broadly over Greek literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. She regularly teaches graduate seminars in Attic tragedy\, Pindar and Greek lyric\, and Plato\, and her research oscillates between projects connected with Plato and with Pindar. The former is represented by her book Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato\, and by her ongoing involvement in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative (published by Brill)\, where she is responsible for the chapters covering Plato. Pindar is the subject of her most recent book\, Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B.C. (2015)\, where she examines Pindar’s victory odes for Hieron of Syracuse and the program of tyrannical self-representation to which they contributed.  Ongoing research includes book projects on Plato’s conception of history and on historical narrative in the Persians of Aeschylus. She has served on the Program Committee and the Board of Directors of the Society for Classical Studies\, and is currently a member of the Nominating Committee. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the General Secretariat for Public Diplomacy & Greeks Abroad (Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, Hellenic Republic) and by the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event will be offered on Zoom.\nRSVP to shorturl.at/uHLTW to receive the link.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/a-celebration-of-greek-language-day/
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SUMMARY:James Barron\, The Greek Connection: The Life of Elias Demetracopoulos and the Untold Story of Watergate
DESCRIPTION:The event will be offered on Zoom.\nRSVP to shorturl.at/dhjAU to receive the link.\nDownload the Zoom app prior to the lecture to participate. \n\n\n\n\n  \nHe was one of the most fascinating figures in 20th-century political history. Yet today\, Elias Demetracopoulos is strangely overlooked–even though his life reads like an epic adventure story. \nAs a precocious twelve-year-old in occupied Athens\, he engaged in heroic resistance efforts against the Nazis\, for which he was imprisoned and tortured. After his life was miraculously spared\, he became an investigative journalist\, covering Greece’s tumultuous politics and America’s increasing influence in the region. A clever and scoop-hungry reporter\, Elias soon gained access to powerful figures in both governments . . . and attracted many enemies. When the Greek military dictatorship took power in 1967\, he narrowly escaped to Washington DC\, where he would lead the fight to restore democracy in his homeland–while running afoul of the American government\, too. \nNow\, after a decade of research and original reporting\, James H. Barron uncovers the story of a man whose tireless pursuit of uncomfortable truths would put him at odds with not only his own government\, but that of the Truman\, Eisenhower\, Kennedy\, Johnson\, Nixon\, Ford\, Carter and Reagan administrations\, making him a target of CIA\, FBI\, and State Department surveillance and harassment–and Greek kidnapping and assassination plots American authorities may have purposefully overlooked. \nJames H. Barron is a journalist\, attorney\, and founding advisory board member of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. A creator of the award-winning International Boston Initiative and Atlantic Rim Network\, he has taught courses at MIT and lectured at universities in Paris and Tokyo.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/james-barron-the-greek-connection-the-life-of-elias-demetracopoulos-and-the-untold-story-of-watergate/
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SUMMARY:Thomas Gallant\, "From Orphan to Abolitionist: Photius Fisk and the Making of Greek America"
DESCRIPTION:To participate in this event\, RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/thomas-gallant-from-orphan-to-abolitionist-photius-fisk-and-the-making-of-greek-america/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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