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Farewell to Salonica: City at the Crossroads

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 …

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