Thessaloniki “Flower of
the Balkans”
Between Prominence and Holocaust
Thessaloniki
“Flower of the Balkans” -the capital
of the Sephardi Jews from the expulsion from Spain in 1492 until the Holocaust
in 1942- was a symbol and the
center of the Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish) speaking world. For some 450 years
Thessaloniki was a vibrant Sephardi-Jewish urban metropolis.
