Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies

The Mediterranean port city of Salonica was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city’s incorporation into Greece in 1912 provoked a major upheaval for Salonica’s Jews. Professor Naar’s award-winning book, Jewish Salonica, tells the story through the voices of Salonican Jews as they forged a new place for themselves in Greek society. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he directs the Sephardic Studies Program.

Made possible by the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies, and the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica.