Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 407-417
Keywords:
Nar, Almpertos
;
Jewish historians Biography
;
Jewish authors Biography
;
Jews History
;
Greek fiction, Modern Jewish authors
;
History and criticism
;
Thessalonikē (Greece)
Abstract:
Albertos Nar was a post-World War II historian of the Salonikian Jewish community in the first half of the twentieth century and the Holocaust. Toward the end of his life, he became an author of Greek prose fiction and social commentary. He also became an ethnographer, highlighting Greek cultural influences on Jewish culture in Ottoman Salonika and Izmir. He left his Jewish Sephardic environment and located and detected Greek influences not only locally in Thessaloniki but also across the Aegean and, in Izmir, in Greece’s foreign rival Turkey, which was previously thought to have been an alien, insular Sephardic Jewish enclave. Through his exposure to contemporary Greek culture, Nar broke down borders and cultural barriers through his literary short stories.
DOI:
10.7767/9783205212904.407
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