Greece; A Jewish History
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2008. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xii, [2], 271, [3] pages. Includes introduction, 20 black and white illustrations, Acknowledgments, Notes, and Index. Also includes information on Independence and Expansion; The "Sephardic Republic": Salonika to 1923; Normalization to Destruction; "The Greeks": Greek Jews Beyond Greece; and Conclusion: Greek Jewish History--Greek or Jewish? This book is the first comprehensive English-language history of Greek Jews. The author describes the history of this diverse group and the processes that worked to make them emerge as a collective. It also follows Jews as they left Greece, as deportees to Auschwitz or emigres to Palestine/Israel and New York's Lower East Side. Katherine Elizabeth Fleming is the Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization in the Department of History at New York University (NYU). Fleming holds a Ph.D. in History (1995) from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in the modern history of Greece and the broader Mediterranean context, with a focus on religious minorities. Fleming is is the second director of the Remarque Institute. In addition to her appointments at NYU, Fleming is a permanent associate member of the faculty of the department of history of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where she runs a longstanding workshop on the history of the Mediterranean with the French historian of Italy, Gilles Pécout. Fleming has sat on the boards of numerous journals, among them the American Historical Review. Fleming is also President of the board of the University of Piraeus in Athens, Greece. More