eSefarad Noticias del Mundo Sefaradi
A memoir of Gloria Sananes Stein’s mother Marguerite Saltiel, a jounalist who came of age in Salonika Greece during WWI.
Marguerite recounts the story of the author’s mother—her childhood in Greece, a unique educational experience, emigration to America, and her life as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Describes a 100-year odyssey in the life of a brave woman who at age eighteen worked as a reporter for a popular Greek newspaper.
In 1917, Marguerite Saltiel, an 18 year old reporter for L’Independant, a popular newspaper in Salonica, Greece, was involved in the adventure of wartime coverage on the Allied Eastern Front when a fire destroyed the Jewish quarter of the city and changed the course of her life.
The fire was the turning point in the life of a family that traced their history to medieval Spain and the expulsion of Jews who failed to convert to Christianity.
Gloria Sananes Stein, a freelance journalist and educator has spent 25 years writing articles on subjects from ballerinas, cattle contests and church dinners to Civil War Reenactors and local historians. She is the author of Country Legacy: Lancaster County One-Room Schools, Marguerite: Journey of a Sephardic Woman, and Leaving Fingerprints. She is currently working on a travel guide to Florida’s exotic barrier islands. Stein is the mother of three children and lives in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Arnold, a photographer.
