-A jewel of memory.---Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Book-of-the-Month Club
At the crossroads of East and West, Salonica (now Thessaloniki) was an oasis in a swirl of conflicting powers and interests, a vibrant world of varied peoples, where Leon Sciaky grew up at the turn of the twentieth century. This Paul Dry Books rediscovered classic includes many photos courtesy of Leon Sciaky's son Peter, who has also written a short biographical sketch of his father's life in America.
-Farewell to Salonica is a fresh and charming book that throws a kindly light on a sector of human...
-A jewel of memory.---Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Book-of-the-Month Club
At the crossroads of East and West, Salonica (now Thessaloniki) was an ...
Leon Sciaky describes his childhood before the First World War in a prosperous, loving Jewish family in the cosmopolitan city of Salonica. Under the Ottoman Empire, the city's diverse communities - Jews, Muslim Turks, Orthodox Greeks and Bulgarians - met, traded and lived alongside each other day-to-day in an atmosphere of tolerance.
Leon Sciaky describes his childhood before the First World War in a prosperous, loving Jewish family in the cosmopolitan city of Salonica. Under the O...
