Διάλεξη του Devin Naar με θέμα "The Exiled Sons of Salonica: Reimagining Sephardic Identity and Homeland in Twentieth Century New York"
10/11/2021 και ώρα 18:00
διαδίκτυο (MS-teams)
Ο Devin Naar είναι Isaac Alhadeff Professor Σεφαραδίτικων Σπουδών και Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής Ιστορίας και Εβραϊκών Σπουδών στο University of Washington, Seattle, H.Π.Α.
Η διάλεξη θα δοθεί στην ομάδα «Εκδηλώσεις ΙΑΚΑ» του MS-TEAMS που είναι προσβάσιμη με κωδικούς του Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας. Η πρόσβαση είναι εφικτή από όλους και χωρίς τη χρήση του MS-TEAMS, από browser Google Chrome ή Microsoft Edge, μέσω του link που θα βρείτε στο κάτω μέρος της σελίδας.
https://www.ha.uth.gr/index.php?page=events-search.display&a=563
Περίληψη
From the turn of the twentieth century until the start of World War II, the Jewish population of Salonica (Thessaloniki), decreased dramatically, from around eighty thousand to around fifty thousand. The turmoil that accompanied the final years of Ottoman rule, a decade of war sparked by the Balkan Wars and the city's incorporation into Greece, rising nationalism, economic concerns, and other factors propelled Salonican Jews to migrate across Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East, establishing a wide-ranging diaspora with numerous hubs connected to each other and to the "mother city" through family, commerce, culture, politics, and philanthropy. This talk explores the establishment of a major "colony" of Salonican Jews in New York City, their efforts to navigate America's racial and class hierarchies, and their mobilization in support of their "mother city" from afar. Rather than merely a sign of decline, the dispersal of Salonican Jews contributed to the reinvention of the city as an unparalleled Sephardic Jewish "homeland."
