The lost worlds of Rhodes : Greeks, Italians, Jews and Turks between tradition and modernity

The lost worlds of Rhodes : Greeks, Italians, Jews and Turks between tradition and modernity / Nathan Shachar.

Four peoples, each with its own culture, language and faith, shared a small Mediterranean town and experienced, each in its own way, the upheavals of war, modernity, emigration and occupation. With the German takeover in 1943, the Holocaust in 1944 and the beginning of Greek rule in 1947, this multi...

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Main Author: Shachar, Nathan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Brighton ; Portland : Sussex Academic Press, [2013]
Subjects:
1800-1999
Italians > Greece > Rhodes > History.
Jews > Greece > Rhodes (Island)
Sephardim > Greece > Rhodes (Island) > History.
Turks > Greece > Rhodes > History.
Minorities > Greece > Rhodes (Island)
HISTORY > Europe > General.
HISTORY > Jewish.
Ethnic relations
Italians
Jews
Minorities
Sephardim
Turks
Rhodes (Greece : Island) > Ethnic relations.
Rhodes (Greece : Island) > History > 19th century.
Rhodes (Greece : Island) > History > 20th century.
Greece > Rhodes
Greece > Rhodes (Island)
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1: Hic Rodus, hic salta! An introduction; 2: France in Rhodes
  • Mirage or Promised Land? On the incredible love of France among Eastern Orientals; 3: The Seeds of War
  • Italy in 1911 Italian colonialism and the Italo-Turkish war of 1911-1912; 4: The Road to Psinthos Visiting the last battlefield of 1912; 5: Fiat Lux! Italy
  • A Light Unto the Nations? The beginning of Italian occupation and the first reaction of the natives; 6: Incipit vita nova ... Daily life between the old and the new.
  • 7: Opening Up The beginnings of tourism8: Kulturkampf Mussolini challenges French cultural hegemony; 9: A New Career
  • Going Away Forever On emigration; 10: Twilight The years of Cesare de Vecchi; 11: Greeks and Jews
  • A Wound Unhealed On the oldest of bilateral relationships; 12: Holocaust; Index.

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