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THE UNWRITTEN PLACES
The Unwritten Places is an account of the life and times of the people of the Pindos mountains in northern Greece, as the author experienced them during ten years of wandering the ancient mule paths and summer pastures. It tells in particular of his friendship with a family of Vlach shepherds from the mountains close to Albania. The title is a translation of "Ta Agrafa", the name of what is still the most inaccessible and least developed part of the country. (From the publisher)...
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COOKBOOK OF THE JEWS OF GREECE
Greek Jewish cooking is the product of Jewish life in four great empires. The Jews have lived in Greece for over 2.000 years as one succeeded another: the Alexandrine, the Roman, the Byzantine, and the Ottoman. From each they took something and made it their own. Beginning in the 15th century, Jewish exiles from the expulsions of Spain and Portugal and, later, from the violence of eastern Europe, came to Ottoman ruled Greece and created one of the greatest Jewish cities in history. Salonika reigned as "Queen of Israel" for over four hundre...
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JEWISH SITES IN THESSALONIKI
Thessaloniki has long been considered Greece's foremost multi-cultural city because for many centuries its history was marked by the peaceful co-existence of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. Between 1492 and 1912 the Jewish community was actually the largest of all ethnic communities here. This thriving community set the tone of Ottoman Thessaloniki, making it known as the most famous Jewish city in the world, widely referred to as the Jerusalem of the Balkans. Nowadays visitors coming for the first time to Thessaloniki encounter a basically...
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ST. PAUL IN GREECE
Otto F. A. Meinardus's St. Paul in Greece has been the fundamental source about St. Paul's travels in Greece for modern visitors to the country for many years, providing clear biblical and cultural insight into all the sites St. Paul visited in Greece, from Philippi to Fair Havens. It also discusses St. Paul's correspondence with the new Christian communities he started and the traditions that continue in these communities today. This edition, with new photographs and maps, has been brought up to date to take account of the changes at some...
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IN SFAKIA
In Sfakia is an affectionate, personal account of the historic and remote Cretan region of Sfakia and its main village, Chora Sfakion, as encountered by the author and his wife starting in the late 1970s. The landscape is rugged, as are the Sfakian people, who are renowned for their heroism, fierceness, dignity and independence - and even today they remain "hospitable to the point of insanity". We follow the couple as they become increasingly engaged with the local people, language, customs, landscape, history and legends, tragedies and tr...
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ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΑΞΙΟΘΕΑΤΑ ΤΩΝ ΕΒΡΑΙΩΝ ΣΤΗ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ
Η Θεσσαλονίκη θεωρείται ως η κατεξοχήν πολυπολιτισμική πόλη στην Ελλάδα, επειδή επί πολλούς αιώνες η ιστορία της χαρακτηριζόταν από την ειρηνική συμβίωση Χριστιανών, Μουσουλμάνων και Εβραίων. Από το 1492, μάλιστα, και έως το 1912 οι Εβραίοι υπερτερούσαν πληθυσμιακά των άλλων εθνοτήτων και καθόριζαν τη φυσιογνωμία της οθωμανικής Θεσσαλονίκης, σε σημείο που να θεωρείται παγκόσμιο φαινόμενο εβραϊκής πόλης και να αποκαλείται Ιερουσαλήμ των Βαλκανίων. Ο επισκέπτης που έρχεται για πρώτη φορά στη Θεσσαλονίκη αντικρίζει, ωστόσο, μια πόλη κατά βάση...
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ΣΤΑ ΣΦΑΚΙΑ
Το "Στα Σφακιά" είναι ένα τρυφερό, προσωπικό οδοιπορικό στα ιστορικά κι απομακρυσμένα Σφακιά της Κρήτης και κυρίως στη Χώρα Σφακίων, το μεγαλύτερο χωριό της περιοχής, έτσι όπως τα έζησαν ο συγγραφέας και η γυναίκα του από τα τέλη της δεκαετίας του '70 μέχρι τώρα. Το τοπίο είναι τραχύ, όπως κι ίδιοι οι Σφακιανοί, που είναι γνωστοί για τον ηρωισμό, την αξιοπρέπεια και την ανεξαρτησία τους και που παραμένουν ακόμα και σήμερα "φιλόξενοι μέχρι τρέλας". Μαθαίνουμε τις προσωπικές περιπέτειες του ζευγαριού και παρακολουθούμε την πορεία του καθώς ε...
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GREEK URBAN WARRIORS
This book was begun in 2007 as a short handbook on Greek terrorism based on official accounts. It turned into a multi-year research project, an attempt to disentangle the lies and wishful thinking of Greek urban guerrillas and the people pursuing them. Fluent in ancient and modern Greek, Kiesling watched the 17N appeals trial, interviewed key participants, waded through masses of archival material, and used computer software and painstaking deduction to reconstruct the secret history of the Greek armed revolutionary movement. Kiesling is t...
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LOST IN THE WILDS OF GREECE
"Lost in The Wilds of Greece" tells of a love affair between the author and the vast wilderness areas still to be found in Greece. Travelling with her horse, George, she chronicles her encounters with the wild itself, and the people who still live there and preserve the magnificent landscape by using the farming methods that first shaped it. She rode through the wildest parts of Greece while exploring from east to west and from south to north. She describes breathtakingly lovely countryside, and also records her dismay at the loss of much ...
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THE JEWS OF IOANNINA
The Greek-speaking Jews of Greece, the Romaniotes, have suffered both neglect and indifference from modern scholars. Neither Ashkhenazi nor Sepharadi, they have maintained their traditions and customs stretching far back into antiquity. They are, in fact, a tangible contact with the world of Hellenistic Jewry, which was the matrix in which Christianity was born and developed and out of which great rabbis and scholars influenced Jewish life throughout the Balkans and even Europe in the Middle Ages. This fine work by Rae Dalven, herself a Ro...
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ΕΝΑΣ ΙΝΔΟΣ ΣΩΚΡΑΤΗΣ
Δεν είχα πρόθεση να γράψω ένα βιβλίο για τη διδασκαλία του Κυρίου Νισαργαντάττα Μαχαράτζ. Το υλικό που παρουσιάζεται σ' αυτόν τον τόμο προέκυψε αυθόρμητα, υπαγορεύθηκε, με μια λεπτή έξαρση που φόρτισε το είναι μου, από μιαν ακαταμάχητη δύναμη, που δεν μπορούσα να την αρνηθώ. Δεν υπήρχε εναλλακτική λύση έπρεπε να γράψω, να εκφράσω σε λεκτικό επίπεδο την αφηρημένη κατανόηση των λόγων του Διδασκάλου. Στην πραγματικότητα ήταν πιο πολύ σα να άκουγα παρά σα να έγραφα, μολονότι η πένα σχημάτιζε στο χαρτί μπροστά μου λέξεις και προτάσεις. Όταν γρ...
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CHRISTIANS IN THE ARAB EAST
Christians in the Arab East, in its second edition, is a comprehensive study of the varying roles which Arabic speaking Christians have played in Islamic society since the Muslim conquests, and in the states of the Arab East since independence. Except for Lebanon where they are an official majority and where they continue to dominate many areas of society and government, these Christian communities are a minority conspicuous for their affluence, education, and Western orientation, whose influence in the contemporary Middle East greatly exc...
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ATHENS - AUSCHWITZ
Jewish presence in Greece dates at least to the mention by Strabo in approximately 85 B.C.E. that Jews could be found in all the cities of the eastern Mediterranean (VII 7 4). There may well have been Jews, if not Jewish communities, living in Greek cities as far back as the Babylonian Exile (586 - 530 B.C.E.). After the wars of the Maccabees, between 170 and 161 B.C.E., many Hellenized Jews left Judaea and settled in the new commercial centers, such as Alexandria and Antioch, of the Hellenistic world. From these communities smaller groups...
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THIS WAY TO PARADISE
Willard Manus's memoir of the thirty-five years he and his Scottish wife and two children spent in the Greek island village of Lindos is one of the best books about Greece ever written. Its portraits of the villagers and of the foreigners living side by side with them - people such as the humorist S. J. Perelman, the Pink Floyd Band, the novelists Richard Hughes and Martha Gellhorn, among others - are vivid and memorable. Its description of how Lindos went from island backwater to artists' colony to Aegean mass tourist beauty spot is maste...
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FALCONERA
The remote, uninhabited island of Falconera almost half way between Athens and Crete is the focus of daring exploits in the last months of World War II. If the German munitions fleet succeeds in reinforcing the German army on Crete the Occupation will continue, prolonging the war. The British navy can stop this fleet only if they can locate it, information that only can be provided by a small schooner from the Greek Schooner Raiding Flotilla. The story is fiction but the setting real. The author, Alexis Ladas, was a 24 year old captain on ...
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