Noble Houses of Corfu
Author | : Despoina Paisidou |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
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Author | : Despoina Paisidou |
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Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
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Total Pages | : 904 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Total Pages | : 992 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Author | : Yvette Manessis Corporon |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017-09-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1501161121 |
Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War II, a woman sets out to track down their descendants—and discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kindness in “an engrossing peek into a little-known chapter of World War II, and one family’s harrowing tale of finding the lost pieces of its own history” (Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Liar Temptress Solider Spy). Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother’s stories about how the people of the small Greek island Erikousa hid a Jewish family—a tailor named Savvas and his daughters—from the Nazis during World War II. Nearly 2,000 Jews from that area died in the concentration camps, but even though everyone on Erikousa knew Savvas and his family were hiding on the island, no one ever gave them up, and the family survived the war. Years later, Yvette couldn’t get the story of the Jewish tailor out of her head. She decided to track down the man’s descendants—and eventually found them in Israel. Their tearful reunion was proof to her that evil doesn’t always win. But just days after she made the connection, her cousin’s child was gunned down in a parking lot in Kansas, a victim of a Neo-Nazi out to inflict as much harm as he could. Despite her best hopes, she was forced to confront the fact that seventy years after the Nazis were defeated, remainders of their hateful legacy still linger today. As Yvette and her family wrestled with the tragedy in their own lives, the lessons she learned from the survivors of the Holocaust helped her confront and make sense of the present. In beautiful interweaving storylines, the past and present come together in a nuanced, heartfelt “story of compassion and collective resistance” with “undeniable emotional power” (Kirkus Reviews).
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Total Pages | : 1968 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Total Pages | : 984 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Author | : Michael Herzfeld |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1400843316 |
Michael Herzfeld describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, he examines major questions confronting conservators and citizens as they negotiate the "ownership" of history: Who defines the past? To whom does the past belong? What is "traditional" and how is this determined? Exploring the meanings of the built environment for Rethemnos's inhabitants, Herzfeld finds that their interest in it has more to do with personal histories and the immediate social context than with the formal history that attracts the conservators. He also investigates the inhabitants' social practices from the standpoints of household and kin group, political association, neighborhood, gender ideology, and the effects of these on attitudes toward home ownership. In the face of modernity, where tradition is an object of both reverence and commercialism, Rethemnos emerges as an important ethnographic window onto the ambiguous cultural fortunes of Greece.
Author | : Jim Potts |
Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2013-09-06 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1908493461 |
Scattered off the west coast of mainland Greece are the seven Ionian Islands, celebrated for their spectacular landscapes, olive groves and classical associations. Together with the mountainous mainland region of Epirus, the combined populations of Corfu, Paxos, Lefkas, Ithaca, Kefalonia, Zakynthos and Kythira constitute less than a twentieth of the population of Greece, yet they have made a huge contribution to the culture of the country, before and since becoming part of the Greek state. The unsurpassed beauty of the islands and of the Pindus Mountains has stimulated the imagination of countless writers and artists from Homer to Byron, Edward Lear and the Durrells, Louis de Bernières and Nicholas Gage, as well as scores of nineteenth-century travellers. Drawing a mosaic portrait of the Ionian Islands and special places of interest in Epirus, Corfu resident Jim Potts focuses on the landscapes, legends, traditions and historical events that have appealed most strongly to the imaginations of writers, residents and travellers.
Author | : Hugh Chisholm |
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Total Pages | : 1970 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Author | : DK |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1465448748 |
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: The Greek Islands is your in-depth guide to the very best of these picturesque islands of the Mediterranean. From lounging on the sandy beaches of Mykonos to looking down on sparkling blue waters while dining on Santorini to exploring more than 2,000 years of history on Rhodes, a trip to this beautiful part of the world truly offers a little bit of everything. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: The Greek Islands truly shows you this destination as no one else can.