New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 319 p. B/w ills. It is not well known that the town of Kirklareli in Turkish Thrace was once home to a Sephardic Jewish community. Today, due to emigration, only a few individuals remain. Erol Haker, whose parents were originally from Kirklareli, tells the story of three generations of the Adoto family, which has resided in Kirklareli since its expulsion from Spain at the end of the fifteenth century. Using the archives of the Alliance school in Kirklaerli as well as interviews with surviving natives of the town, Haker describes the Jewish lives in the nineteenth century and then their experience of traumatic events from the Balkan and First World Wars and the arrival of Bulgarian and Greek armies until the anti-Jewish riots of the 1930s. Haker's work serves to reminds us of the fact that the Thracian Jewish community was one of the Ottoman Empire's most vibrant and that Kirklareli was, until the early years of the Turkish Republic, still home to an important part of Turkey's Jewish population. Contents: INTRODUCTION.; 2 THE ADATOS OF KIRKLARELI THE FIRST GENERATIONS.; 3 MENAHEM ADATO(EL MORAVI)RAISING A FAMILY.; 4 MENAHEM ADATO(EL MORAVI)MAKING A LIVING.; 5 MENAHEM ADATO(EL MORAVI)HIS INVOLVEMENT IN COMMUNITY LIFE 1880-1912.; 6 MENAHEM ADATO (EL MORAVI) HOME AND FAMILY.; Sketch 1 The Adat o Block(1910).; Sketch 2 The Adato Home(1910).; 7 MENAHEM ADATO (EL MORAVI). HIS RELIGION,THE CELEBRATION OF THE SABBATH.; 8 EL MORAVI,CELEBRATION OF HOLIDAYS, HIS LAST YEARS IN JERUSALEM., 9 LIA ADATO. HIS YEARS THROUGH YOUNG ADULTHOOD 1879-1914., 10 LIA ADATO,WORLD WAR ONE YEARS.; 11 LIA ADATO,LIFE IN THE YEARS UNDER GREEK OCCUPATION 1919-1922.; 12 LIA ADATO LIFE IN THE NEW TURKISH REPUBLIC 1923-1934.; 13 MENAHEM,BARZILAI,AND SULTANA ADATO AS TEENAGERS AND YOUNG ADULTS 1923-1934.; 14 THE CHIPRUT FAMILY., 15 THE SALINAS FAMILY.; 16 THE 1934 EASTERN THRACE ANTI-JEWISH RIOTS AS THEY OCCURRED IN KIRKLARELI.; 17 LIA ADATO: AN EPILOGUE 1935-1958.; 18 NUPTIALS.; Appendix 1 The Regional,Township and Community Background.; APPENDIX 2 FAMILY TREE INFORMATION.; BIBLIOGRAPHY.
