Mark Mazower
Reflecting on 50 years of the Metapolitefsi
A three-day conference commemorating the 50th anniversary since the restoration of Greek democracy, a period known as the Metapolitefsi, is scheduled to take place from February 29 to March 2 at the National Gallery in Athens.
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Leon Saltiel: Glimmers of hope in battling Greek antisemitism
By George Gilson
When 44-year-old Leon Saltiel was growing up in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest, the Jewish community, which once constituted the majority group, remained introverted and did not talk about their Jewishness, even 40 years after the city's Jews were deported and 95 percent of them were exterminated in Auschwitz.
Leon Saltiel: Glimmers of hope in battling Geek anti-Semitism
By George Gilson
When 44-year-old Leon Saltiel was growing up in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest, the Jewish community, which once constituted the majority group, remained introverted and did not talk about their Jewishness, even 40 years after the city's Jews were deported and 95 percent of them were exterminated in Auschwitz.
Historians Mazower, Kalyvas to join 'Greece 2021' committee
Eminent historians Mark Mazower and Stathis Kalyvas are to join a committee that will oversee preparations to mark the bicentenary of the 19th-century revolt against Ottoman Turkey that led to the creation of the modern Greek state, it emerged on Wednesday.
'History is, above all, an exercise in imagination,' Mazower tells Kathimerini
"I was in the bookshop the other day and I saw your book and realized that you must be the son of Bill Mazower, who was my first boyfriend in Minehead, Somerset in 1941," declares one of several letters Mark Mazower has received since the publication last year of his book "What You Did Not Tell."
From Istanbul to Europe's heart of darkness
'The Mask of Dimitrios' by Eric Ambler (Penguin Modern Classics, 240 pages, £10); 'Journey into Fear' by Eric Ambler (Penguin Modern Classics, 224 pages, £10)
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