La comunidad sefardí de Salónica después de las guerras balcánicas (1912-1913)

Abstract

The demise of the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent rebirth of a new Greek nation in 1913, coming as a result of the end to The War in the Balkans, set the basis for understanding, in part, many of the problems which the Salonika Sephardic community confronted as it was absorbed by the victorious Greeks. The most salient of which were: 1) difficult societal relations between Sephardim and Greeks; 2) knowledge that they, the Sephardim, could also claim Spanish citizenship; 3) the desire to preserve Ladino and to improve their understanding of the Spanish language.