Avraam benaroya biography books
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Benaroya, Avram
BENAROYA, AVRAM (1888–1955), journalist and first teacher of stenography in Turkey. Born in Edirne, Benaroya studied in the Ecole Normale Israélite in Paris. His first teaching position was in Hasköy, Istanbul, and then in Damascus. From 1911 he taught French and stenography at the Turkish Lycée Galatasaray and the High School of Commerce. His stenography method was adopted by the Ministry of Education. In 1925 the Ministry of Commerce decided to introduce stenography in the commercial schools and Benaroya was responsible for the curriculum. In 1928 Benaroya started working as a stenography teacher in the Turkish Parliament. His journalistic career began in Le Jeune Turc. Later he wrote in Ikdam, Stamboul, La République, and Le Journal d'Orient. In 1948 he started publishing L'Etoile du Levant, a weekly newspaper in French which appeared until shortly after his death. His books include: Basit ve Vatani Kıraat: Lectures Patriotiques Faciles (1916), Türkçe Lisanına Mahsûs Stenografya Usûlü, Istanbul (1918), Türkçe'ye Mahsûs Stenografya Usûlü (1929), Istenografi Esas Kuralları ve Kısaltmalar Ders 1–2 (1943), İstenografi: Esas Kurallar ve Kısaltmalar (12 ders) (1944), Istenografi Dersleri (1947).
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Thessaloniki was considered the "Jerusalem of the Balkans". The majority of the inhabitants were Sephardic Jews, who were expelled from Spain in 1492 by the royal couple Fernando and Isabella and found a new home in the city on the Thermaic Gulf. In the 20th century, during the German occupation, disaster broke over them: in the Holocaust, almost all of the approximately 50,000 people of the Jewish community of the northern Greek metropolis were murdered by the Nazis in the concentration camp of the German Empire. Against this background, the novel by Elena Chouzouri, which illuminates unknown facets of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki and also makes her role in resistance against the occupiers a theme. Alisa comes to Hellas from Tel Aviv and is looking for the story of her grandmother Luna, who grew up in the security of a medium-sized Jewish family. After the invasion of the Germans in 1941, Luna follows her lover Pavlos into the Paiko Mountains with the flame hair, joins the Greek partisan movement there and survives. These elements the novel takes up and contrasts the fate of the long-established Sephards, who were led to the slaughter bench and the death trains like the lambs, with a resistance group that also belonged to many Greeks of the Sephardic Jews. With her jo
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