Abstract:The Convention of the Compulsory Exchange of Populations between Turkey and Greece was signed on 30th January 1923, as part of the Lausanne treaty (24th July 1923). An exception was done for the Greek Orthodox population of the two small Aegean islands Imvros and Tenedos in the eastern Mediterranean along with the Constantinopolitan Greeks—and for Muslims in Western Thrace. However, population displacement did not stop with the implementation of the population exchange programme. While the Greek population of Imvros was about 6,000 in the 1960s, by the 1990s, it had been reduced to 300. This paper focuses on analysing the character of native Greek Imvrians' migration. It is based on first hand data gathered utilising oral history methods. It deals with the events that forced them to leave their homelands. By focusing on the experience of Imvrians who began to leave their homeland in the 1960s, this study seeks to shed light on the silenced Greeks of Imvros island. It is an attempt to provide a tangible insight to the in comprehensions produced by Turkish historiography about Greek Imvrians fleeing their homeland islands.
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{"title":"After Expulsion: 1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry by Jonathan S. Ray (review)","authors":"V. Mallia-Milanes","doi":"10.5860/choice.50-6397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.50-6397","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42904,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES","volume":"23 1","pages":"128 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43180194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fifteen Generations of Bretons Kinship and Society in Lower Brittany, 1720–1980 by M. Segalen (review)","authors":"Malcolm Smith","doi":"10.5860/choice.29-3971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.29-3971","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42904,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES","volume":"2 1","pages":"291 - 292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42348411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-11DOI: 10.1163/EJ.9789004153097.I-275.45
M. Goodman
Abstract: Modem interpretations of the nature of Judaism in the Mediterranean diaspora in the late-Roman period have been based mainly on the evaluation of archaeological and epigraphic data. Such interpretations are mostly quite possible, but all involve eisegesis and (often undeclared) assumptions which are here systematically questioned. In particular, evidence customarily used to reconstruct a picture of a liberal diaspora Judaism is scrutinised to see how much of it in fact may have been produced by pagan polytheists who revered the Jewish God. The evidence from Sardis is treated as a test case. In the final section a decrease in the variety within Judaism, and a decline in the numbers of pagan polytheists worshipping the Jewish God, are postulated for the period after 388 C.E., when Roman emperors began to attack pagan shrines and to give state support to the Jewish patriarchs.
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{"title":"“These Sad But Glorious Days”: Dispatches from Europe, 1846–1850 by Margaret Fuller (review)","authors":"Peter Vassallo, Sabine Sant Cassia","doi":"10.5860/choice.29-6463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.29-6463","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42904,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES","volume":"4 1","pages":"149 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47611944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}