The Catherine Pelican Memorial Lecture in Greek Studies: Greece's Jews in the Holocaust. . Presented by Nicholas Doumanis, Professor and Illinois Chair in Hellenic Studies, University of Illinois Chicago.. . . . The Holocaust claimed the lives of nearly nine out of ten Jews living in Greece, the highest percentage of any occupied territory in wartime Europe. In this lecture, Prof. Nicholas Doumanis will explore why the largest community, that of Thessaloniki, suffered disproportionately, while most Athenian Jews were saved. Prof. Doumanis will also discuss Jews who fought in the Greek resistance, the experiences of Greek Jews in Auschwitz, and how survivors were treated upon their return.. . . . About the speaker: Professor Nicholas Doumanis, Professor and Illinois Chair in Hellenic Studies, teaches world history at the University of Illinois Chicago. He specializes in modern European history, mainly southern Europe and particularly Greece. He is also interested in the history of the modern Greek diaspora.. . . . His publications include his prize-winning Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean (Macmillan, St Martin’s, 1997), which is an ethnographic study of Greek islanders living under Italian colonial rule, and a book on Italian nation formation. He has also written a book on Greece since antiquity, and a study of Muslim-Christian coexistence and everyday life in the Ottoman Empire before the advent of nationalism. . . . . Doumanis is interested in historiography, especially approaches that consider everyday and large-scale levels of investigation, but also nations and empires as categories of analysis and practice.. . . . Prior to joining UIC, Professor Doumanis taught at a number of universities in Australia, particularly at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
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