Zionism was a primarily urban phenomenon, a diasporic but not deterritorialized national movement with multiple spatial references, as much to the land of “exile” as to the imagined homeland of Eretz Yisrael.Īlthough concentration camps constituted a densely populated social world, historians still large. Concurrently, the key role of the club in the local sports scene facilitated Jewish integration into a Hellenizing Salonica. The multifaceted sociability of the Maccabi Sports Club rendered Jewish youth visible in the public sphere and turned the young Maccabeans into the main symbol of Jewish presence in Salonica. Drawing on the local Christian and Jewish daily press, as well as numerous Ladino Zionist publications, it shows that Zionist associational practices and discourses produced a local identity that was at once Salonican and Greco-Jewish. The article focuses on the multifaceted relation Salonica’s Zionist youth associations developed with the public space of a rapidly Hellenizing city during the interwar years. This article refines the emerging historiographical orthodoxy on European Zionism as a complementary nationality by approaching Salonican Zionism as a modern urban identity that renewed the local Jews’ ties to their hometown. more Derided by Jewish assimilationists, Greek Christian nationalists, and subsequent historians as un-patriotic, Zionism in interwar Salonica in fact followed a broader pan-European trend and developed a symbiotic relationship with Greek nationalism. This chapter by contrast draws from Greek and Entente government records, archives of international Jewish organizations, and the local press, to prioritize the functioning of formal and informal cross-ethnic networks and argue that the multiethnic, post-Ottoman commercial elites of Macedonia actively shaped the convoluted politics of contraband trade as their region transitioned from empire to nation-state.ĭerided by Jewish assimilationists, Greek Christian nationalists, and subsequent historians as un. Mainstream historiography on the political economy of illicit trade during the Great War has so far adopted a largely nation-bound approach focusing on the processes of state-building and the establishment of national economies sustained by increasingly tighter control over international trade. It examines how the British and French military authorities imaginatively adopted a variety of non-economic criteria to define as ‘contraband’ the business activities of numerous prominent Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Dönme merchants in the port-cities of Salonica and Kavala, and how in turn these merchants challenged their blacklisting by employing a multi-faceted social, cultural and political capital to prove their loyalty to the Entente Powers. more This chapter repositions the politics of contraband trade in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean during World War One at the interstices of state policies and individual merchant action. This chapter repositions the politics of contraband trade in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterr.
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