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SUMMARY:“Seeing Like a Merchant: Jews and Greeks from Ottoman to Greek Rule” by Paris Papamichos Chronakis (Royal Holloway\, University of London)
DESCRIPTION:Seeing Like a Merchant: Jews and Greeks from Ottoman to Greek Rule \nLecture by \nParis Papamichos Chronakis\nLecturer in Modern Greek History\, Department of History\nRoyal Holloway\, University of London \nPresented by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and\ncosponsored by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture \nFebruary 24\, 2026\n2:00 P.M.\n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA Campus \nThis event is part of the Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies \nThis event is moderated by Aomar Boum\, Professor\, Maurice Amado Endowed Chair in Sephardic Studies\,\nUCLA Department of Anthropology \nRSVP here \nHow did the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie of the Eastern Mediterranean navigate the transition from empire to nation-state in the early twentieth century? In this talk\, Paris Papamichos Chronakis shows how the Jewish and Greek merchants of Salonica (present-day Thessaloniki) skillfully managed the tumultuous shift from Ottoman to Greek rule amidst rising ethnic tensions and heightened class conflict. Bringing their once powerful voices back into the historical narrative\, he traces their entangled trajectories as businessmen\, community members\, and civic leaders to illustrate how the self-reinvention of a Jewish-led bourgeoisie made a city Greek. Salonica’s merchants were present in their own—and their city’s—remaking. \nParis Papamichos Chronakis is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Modern Greek History at Royal Holloway University of London. His work explores the entangled histories and divided memories of Jews and Christians in the Eastern Mediterranean from the late Ottoman Empire to the Holocaust. In recent years\, his research and publications have expanded to Salonica in World War One\, Greek interwar Zionism and anti-Zionism\, the Holocaust of Sephardi Jewry\, and digital Holocaust Studies. His first book\, The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2024 winning that year’s National Jewish Book Awards – JDC-Herbert Katzki Award (Writing Based on Archival Material).
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/seeing-like-a-merchant-jews-and-greeks-from-ottoman-to-greek-rule-by-paris-papamichos-chronakis-royal-holloway-university-of-london/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hellenic,History,Jewish Greece
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