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A World of Sephardic Jews, Greek Orthodox, and Turkish Muslims in the early 1900s
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.
Price: $14.95, Trade Paper, 299 pp., 5.38″ x 8.5″, June 2003, ISBN: 9781589880023
Leon Sciaky was born in 1894, when the Turkish flag still waved over Salonica. His family left their beloved but turbulent homeland in 1915, settling in New York City. Sciaky lived in America—mainly upstate New York—with his wife, Frances, and son until his death in 1958. He taught at a number of progressive schools and camps and, in his last years, owned and operated a school and camp with Frances.
