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SUMMARY:"Seeing Like a Merchant: Jews and Greeks from Ottoman to Greek Rule" by Paris Papamichos Chronakis (Royal Holloway\, University of London)
DESCRIPTION:Seeing Like a Merchant: Jews and Greeks from Ottoman to Greek Rule \nLecture by \nParis Papamichos Chronakis\nLecturer in Modern Greek History\, Department of History\nRoyal Holloway\, University of London \nPresented by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and\ncosponsored by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture \nFebruary 24\, 2026\n2:00 P.M.\n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA Campus \nThis event is part of the Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies \nThis event is moderated by Aomar Boum\, Professor\, Maurice Amado Endowed Chair in Sephardic Studies\,\nUCLA Department of Anthropology \nThis event has already taken place. We are no longer accepting RSVPs. \nHow did the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie of the Eastern Mediterranean navigate the transition from empire to nation-state in the early twentieth century? In this talk\, Paris Papamichos Chronakis shows how the Jewish and Greek merchants of Salonica (present-day Thessaloniki) skillfully managed the tumultuous shift from Ottoman to Greek rule amidst rising ethnic tensions and heightened class conflict. Bringing their once powerful voices back into the historical narrative\, he traces their entangled trajectories as businessmen\, community members\, and civic leaders to illustrate how the self-reinvention of a Jewish-led bourgeoisie made a city Greek. Salonica’s merchants were present in their own—and their city’s—remaking. \nParis Papamichos Chronakis is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Modern Greek History at Royal Holloway University of London. His work explores the entangled histories and divided memories of Jews and Christians in the Eastern Mediterranean from the late Ottoman Empire to the Holocaust. In recent years\, his research and publications have expanded to Salonica in World War One\, Greek interwar Zionism and anti-Zionism\, the Holocaust of Sephardi Jewry\, and digital Holocaust Studies. His first book\, The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2024 winning that year’s National Jewish Book Awards – JDC-Herbert Katzki Award (Writing Based on Archival Material).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/parischronakis/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hellenic,History,Jewish Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210203T100000
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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: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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210130T100000
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SUMMARY:Greek Book Club: Ρίκα Μπενβενίστε\, Λούνα
DESCRIPTION:Στο βιβλίο αυτό\, η βιογραφία της Λούνας ανοίγει ένα μονοπάτι για να ξανασκεφτούμε τους Εβραίους της Θεσσαλονίκης στην πόλη τους\, τη Shoah\, τη φτώχεια και τα ανάποδα μεταπολεμικά χρόνια. Επειδή ήταν φτωχή\, αγράμματη και γυναίκα\, τα ίχνη της εύκολα χάνονται ανάμεσα στους αφανείς της ιστορίας. Αρχειακά τεκμήρια\, καταγεγραμμένες μαρτυρίες\, φωτογραφίες και προσωπικές αναμνήσεις συναρμόζονται ως ισότιμες «πηγές» που καλούν σε ίση κριτική διάθεση. Εισβάλλουμε στον κόσμο και στη σιωπή των αφανών με λέξεις που δεν είναι δικές τους\, γιατί τα λόγια τους δεν ακούστηκαν\, πάρα πολλές φορές αγνοήθηκαν ή λησμονήθηκαν. Ακολουθούμε τα ίχνη ενός βίου που δέθηκε με τις περιπέτειες του 20ού αιώνα\, διατρέχοντας τους τόπους απ’ όπου πέρασε η Λούνα\, εκείνους που κατοίκησε. Τα ίχνη της αναζητούνται σε κτίρια\, οικοδομές\, τοπία της πόλης. Οι ιστορίες που λέγονται είναι ιστορίες που δέθηκαν με αυτούς τους τόπους\, με την κατοίκησή τους από τη Λούνα και από τους δικούς της. (Ρ.Μπ.\, από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/greek-book-club-%cf%81%ce%af%ce%ba%ce%b1-%ce%bc%cf%80%ce%b5%ce%bd%ce%b2%ce%b5%ce%bd%ce%af%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b5-%ce%bb%ce%bf%cf%8d%ce%bd%ce%b1-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Hellenic,Humanities,Jewish Greece,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos\, Museum Director\, Kehila Kedosha Janina\, “Meet Me on the Corner of Broome and Allen: A Visit to Kehila Kedosha Janina”
DESCRIPTION:Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos gives us a virtual tour of Kehila Kedosha Janina\, the only Romaniote synagogue in the Western Hemisphere. The congregation was founded in 1906 by Greek Jewish immigrants from Ioannina\, but the synagogue itself was not erected until 1927. The years from then until the Second World War were a time of prosperity for the Romaniote community in the Lower East Side: there were three rabbis in the synagogue\, and on the High Holidays\, there was often only standing room for synagogue services. After the Second World War\, many congregants moved to other boroughs and parts of Manhattan\, including Harlem\, the Bronx\, and Brooklyn\, though these communities are no longer active. Although the community has steadily dwindled since its pre-war heyday\, services are still held on Shabbat and Jewish holidays. A documentary film about the synagogue and community\, “the Last Greeks on Broome Street” was produced in the early 2000s. It is directed\, written and narrated by Ed Askinazi\, whose great-grandparents were among the congregation’s founders. \nKehila Kedosha Janina is somewhat unusual for a Romaniote synagogue in that it runs north-south with the Ehal on the north side (Romaniote synagogues typically run east to west)\, the bimah is in the center of the main sanctuary (most Romaniote synagogues place the bimah on the west wall)\, and the internal stairway for the women’s balcony. It is typical in the fact that men and women sit separately (a feature of all Orthodox synagogues). The second-floor women’s gallery contains a museum with artifacts\, exhibits\, and Judaica on Jewish life in Greece and the history of Greek Jews as well as a gift shop. Exhibited items are housed in cases along the walls on either side behind the seats\, as well as in the area immediately in front of the staircase. \n Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos is Museum Director of Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum in New York City. She is also President of the Association of Friends of Greek Jewry\, Former Director of Special Projects for Sephardic House\, a teacher of Judaic Studies from 1990-2010\, and a translator of Greek Jewish Holocaust memoirs. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Panepirotic Federation of America. \nTo participate in this event\, please RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/marcia-haddad-ikonomopoulos-museum-director-kehila-kedosha-janina-meet-me-on-the-corner-of-broome-and-allen-a-visit-to-kehila-kedosha-janina/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Jewish Greece,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with the Mayor: The Honorable Moses Elisaf\, Mayor of Ioannina
DESCRIPTION:Moses Elisaf was born in Ioannina in 1954 and graduated from the University of Athens in 1979. His parents were Holocaust survivors who managed to escape the roundup during which most of Ioannina’s Jews were deported to Auschwitz; only 9% of the community survived. Elisaf is a pathologist\, a professor of internal medicine at Ioannina Medical School\, and director of the Lipids\, Atherosclerosis\, Obesity and Diabetes Department. Between 1993 and 1994\, he worked at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. He has been the president of the Romaniote Jewish community of Ioannina for more than a decade\, and previously served as the president of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece. Elisaf has also served on the city council and as the president of a cultural center. Running as an independent politician\, he obtained 50.33% of the vote on the second round of the elections for mayor of Ioannina in June 2019. Elisaf says that he is a centrist and aims to build consensus around policies for the city’s development\, such as improving infrastructure and public services. Elisaf is the first Jewish mayor in the history of Greece. \nHer Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greek to the United States\, will offer opening remarks. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Panepirotic Federation of America. \nTo take part in this event\, please RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/a-conversation-with-the-mayor-the-honorable-moses-elisaf-mayor-of-ioannina/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Hellenic,Jewish Greece,Modern Greece
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