Links to items related to modern Greek History and Culture

Politics

The seven wounds of Greece and the next day. Very interesting article by Prof. Nicholas Economides of the Stern School of Business, NYU. The article was originally published in Greek in the newspaper Kathimerini on May 5, 2019 and it contains a lot of food for thought. Here is an example: "Turkey attempts to re-establish the Ottoman Empire. Its major opponents are Israel, Greece, the United States, Cyprus, Egypt, .... . The solution is simple: Greece should establish the closest possible military cooperation with Israel, even leading to a treaty of mutual defense."

For laughs and tears: A Greek Trategy

Book Reviews

Mazower Inside Hitler's Greece

Mazower (editor) After the War was Over: Reconstructing the family, nation, and state in Greece, 1943-1960

Dobkin Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City

Mazower Salonica: City of Ghosts
(Interesting book but marred by political bias. Greeks are likely to be annoyed right away. Jews may like it until they realize that the case the author builds against the Greeks is going later to be used against Israel.)

Essays by T. Pavlidis

History of a Family from Asia Minor (it includes the material of an earlier posting on "The Destruction of the Greek and Armenian Populations of Asia Minor" that covers the tragic events of 1919-22)

Does History Repeats Itself in the Middle East?
An essay on the parallels between the events of 1919-22 and the current situation in the Middle East.

Reprints

THE GREEK JEWS AND THE HOLOCAUST-WHY 87% WERE KILLED DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
An article by Dr. Michael Matsas.