The Long Reach of Classic Short Fiction
By MARIO NAVES
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A fabled Greek port city with a 2,300-year Jewish presence makes for a poignant visit.
THESSALONIKI — This may be Greece’s northern second city, but it is south of Rome. It is a relaxed and surprisingly gracious kind of place, though scruffier than, say, Trieste, and wears a mottled overcoat of paradox and pathos. In this quintessentially Greek metropolis, the founding father of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, was born. Also, 96 percent of the city’s Jews, who have a 2,300-year presence here, perished in the Holocaust.
By MARIO NAVES
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By DONALD KIRK
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By JAMES BROOKE
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By MATTHEW RICE
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By GEORGE WILL
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By MATTHEW RICE
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By REBECCA SUGAR
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By MARIO NAVES
|THESSALONIKI — This may be Greece’s northern second city, but it is south of Rome. It is a relaxed and surprisingly gracious kind of place, though scruffier than, say, Trieste, and wears a mottled overcoat of paradox and pathos. In this quintessentially Greek metropolis, the founding father of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, was born. Also, 96 percent of the city’s Jews, who have a 2,300-year presence here, perished in the Holocaust.
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