Brown University: Paris Papamichos Chronakis in conversation with Omer Bartov
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Amanatidou, Elissavet
Mar 30, 2026, 10:48:53 AM (6 days ago) Mar 30
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What did it mean to live the twentieth century as a Jew among other religious communities in a multiethnic city on the shores of the Mediterranean—or in a small town on the plains of Eastern Europe? What made Salonica both the “Babel of the Mediterranean” and the “Jerusalem of the Balkans”? Why did Buczacz’s ethnic mosaic end up in fragments? How could cosmopolitanism give way to urbicide—the killing of cities? Paris Papamichos Chronakis’ recent book, The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants from
Ottoman to Greek Rule, and Omer Bartov’s Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz grapple with these questions as they rethink the passage from empires to nation-states in the urban Mediterranean and the unravelling of cities amid the maelstrom of genocide in Eastern Europe. With cities once again under attack in Europe and the Mediterranean, Omer Bartov and Paris Papamichos Chronakis come together to discuss.
Ottoman to Greek Rule, and Omer Bartov’s Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz grapple with these questions as they rethink the passage from empires to nation-states in the urban Mediterranean and the unravelling of cities amid the maelstrom of genocide in Eastern Europe. With cities once again under attack in Europe and the Mediterranean, Omer Bartov and Paris Papamichos Chronakis come together to discuss.
Elsa Amanatidou
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Director, Modern Greek Studies
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