(JTA) — Exactly a century ago, on Aug. 18, 1917, a massive fire roared through the Mediterranean port city of Salonica, Greece, then home to the largest and most dynamic Ladino-speaking Sephardi ...

JTA — Exactly a century ago, on Aug. 18, 1917, a massive fire roared through the Mediterranean port city of Salonica, Greece, (or Thessaloniki as it is known today) then home to the largest and most ...

(JTA) — A century ago, on Aug. 18, 1917, a massive fire roared through the Mediterranean port city of Salonica, Greece, then home to the largest and most dynamic Ladino-speaking Sephardi Jewish ...

I HAVE been here seven months now and am beginning to feel like an old inhabitant. We reached here early in November, and now it is June. One’s main impression of this country, if one is a native of ...

Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower 537pp, HarperCollins, £25 Two decades ago the young Mark Mazower hoisted his rucksack on to his back and walked away ...

A century ago, towards the end of World War I, Allied soldiers were engaged in fighting on the Salonica Front, near the Greek city now known as Thessaloniki. Those key battles, fought in the most ...

This is the ninth part in a series about a journey across what used to be called Macedonia, which is now divided among Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, and Turkey. Walking from the Holocaust monument ...

The Greek government today notified Jewish leaders that a sum of ten million drachmas has been assigned for rehabilitating the Jewish slums in Salonica. The decision was adopted after the recent visit ...

Albert Bourla (courtesy Pfizer); his parents Sara and Mois Bourla (courtesy LinkedIn/Albert Bourla); the Pfizer vaccine (photo from Wikimedia Commons) Before World War II, there were about 50,000 Jews ...

One Saturday last quarter, my roommate and I got brunch at Salonica, the Greek diner a short walk from our apartment. This would be an unremarkable occurrence but for the fact that we had eaten lunch ...

In the run-up to the trial of Ilias Nikolaou, the anarchist arrested last January in relation to an attack against the municipal police in Evosmos, a working class suburb of Salonica, a solidarity ...

Riots broke once again in the two big Greek cities, this time in relation to the trial of an anarchist accused of bank robbery. The troubles come at the end of yet another tense week in Greece.