Resources
Exodus: The Stories of 1922 The Podcast Series
Episode Five: "A New Greece"
Kalofagas.ca: Greek Food and Beyond
https://www.kalofagas.ca/
Dimitrios Petsalakis YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6LBgjt0BhbTS30SnHaViaQ
A Touch of Spice (Πολίτικη κουζίνα)
2003 ‧ Drama/Comedy ‧ 1h 48m
1968 A movie by Tassos Boulmetis
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (novel) – Penguin Random House.
Middlesex is the story of Cal or Calliope Stephanides, a comic epic of a family’s American life, and the expansive history of a gene travelling down through time, starting with a rare genetic mutation. In 1922, Desdemona and Eleutherios (“Lefty”) Stephanides, brother and sister, leave the war-ravaged village of Bithynios in Asia Minor…
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières – Penguin Random House
Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in southwest Turkey (Anatolia) in the early part of the last century — a quirky community in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully over the centuries and where friendship, even love, has transcended religious differences. But with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the onset of the Great War…
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk | Penguin Random House Canada
A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer.
Farewell Anatolia (Matomena Homata) by Dido Sotiriou (1983) Athens Kedros.
Dido Soteriou's novel - a perennial best-seller in Greece since it first appeared in 1962 - tells the story of Manolis Axiotis, a poor but resourceful villager born near the ancient ruins of Ephesus.
Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 by GILES MILTON – Basic Books
PARADISE LOST tells the forgotten story of the sack of Smyrna, once the most opulent and cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire.
Collected Poems, 1924-1955 by George Seferis (Bilingual Edition, 1982) - Princeton University Press
This new bilingual edition of George Seferis: Collected Poems both supplements and revises the two earlier editions published in 1967 and 1969.
Stelios Kazantzidis & Marinella - Ziguala
From the 1960 movie "I Kyria Dimarhos" (Mrs. Mayor), Kazantzidis and Marinella singing one of their early songs. A throwback to our discussion in Episode 5 where Rebetika become more popular.
Manolis Hiotis:
Giouzel Taxim by Manolis Hiotis
Vasilis Tsitsanis (this song is about the village next to mine, now called Neoi Epivates (new passengers), but well known as Mpakse) It also uses the word tsarka that Natasha talked about with you in the episode:
Episode Four: "Strangers"
Following the defeat of the Greek Army in 1922 by nationalist Turkish forces, the 1923 Lausanne Convention specified the first internationally ratified compulsory population exchange.
The war between Greece and Turkey ended in 1922 in what Greeks call the Asia Minor catastrophe, a disaster greater than the fall of Constantinople in 1453, for it marked the end of Hellenism in the ancient heartland of Asia Minor.
Twice A Stranger (2013) Directed by Andreas Apostolidis & Yuri Averof. Anemon Productions.
Calls for protection of 1922 refugee architecture
The tent city of Kaisariani is seen in an archive photo from 1923, before it grew into a suburb of modest refugee housing, parts of which are still in evidence today.
Episode Three: “Uprooted”
Source: Goldwag’s Journal on Civilization on WordPress.com
In the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, nearly two million citizens in Turkey and Greece were expelled from homelands. The Lausanne treaty resulted in the deportation of Orthodox Christians from Turkey to Greece and of Muslims from Greece to Turkey…
Athens, City of Wisdom: A History by Brice Clark -- Pegasus Books.
A sweeping narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization.
Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until the twentieth century when the Greek army marched in…
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (novel) – Penguin Random House.
Middlesex is the story of Cal or Calliope Stephanides, a comic epic of a family’s American life, and the expansive history of a gene travelling down through time, starting with a rare genetic mutation. In 1922, Desdemona and Eleutherios (“Lefty”) Stephanides, brother and sister, leave the war-ravaged village of Bithynios in Asia Minor…
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières (novel) – Penguin Random House
Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in southwest Turkey (Anatolia) in the early part of the last century — a quirky community in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully over the centuries and where friendship, even love, has transcended religious differences…
Refugee Procession Is Scene Of Horror
By Ernest Hemingway
Toronto Daily Star, November 14, 1922
https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Hemingway_Refugee_Procession.pdf
Episode Two: “Ta Meri Mas/Our Homelands”
Twice A Stranger (2013) Directed by Andreas Apostolidis & Yuri Averof
Watch TWICE A STRANGER Online | Vimeo On Demand on Vimeo
America, America (1963) Directed by Elia Kazan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwG34kPsr1E
Episode One: "Loss"
The Uprooting: The expansionist policy of Turkey and the persecutions of the Greeks by the Turks in the 20th century by Institute of Historical Studies 1985, Panepistimiou avenue n° 34, Athens, Greece, 58 p., [2] and The Genocide of the Ottoman Greeks 1914-1923 p. 15
Centre for Asia Minor Studies
http://en.kms.org.gr/
The Lausanne Project
https://thelausanneproject.com/
IstanPόlis Collaborative
http://istanpolis.org/
Biography of an Empire by Christine M. Philliou - UC Press
This vividly detailed revisionist history opens a new vista on the great Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, a key period often seen as the eve of Tanzimat westernizing reforms and the beginning of three distinct histories—ethnic nationalism in the Balkans, imperial modernization from Istanbul, and European colonialism in the Middle East.
Turkey by Christine M. Philliou - University of California Press
From its earliest days, the dominant history of the Turkish Republic has been one of national self-determination and secular democratic modernization. The story insisted on total rupture between the Ottoman Empire and the modern Turkish state and on the absolute unity of the Turkish nation.
The Thirty-Year Genocide — Benny Morris, Dror Ze'evi
From 1894 to 1924 three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities. Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi's impeccably researched account is the first to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christian population and create a pure Muslim nation.
The final years of the Ottoman Empire were catastrophic ones for its non-Turkish, non-Muslim minorities. From 1913 to 1923, its rulers deported, killed, or otherwise persecuted staggering numbers of citizens in an attempt to preserve “Turkey for the Turks.”
A riveting account of exile from Turkish genocide, brought to light for the first time ever in Sano Halo's personal story.
Following the defeat of the Greek Army in 1922 by nationalist Turkish forces, the 1923 Lausanne Convention specified the first internationally ratified compulsory population exchange.
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