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- 1 2 Naar, Devin E. (2016). Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p. 205.
- ↑ The title was later changed to Korot ha-Yehudim be-Turkiyah ve-'Arzot ha-Kedem. The French title was Histoire des Israelites de Turquie (Turquie, Hongrie, Serbie, Bulgarie, Bosnie, Albanie et Grèce) Et de L`Orient (Syrie, Palestine, Egypte etc.)
- ↑ Behar, Moshe; Benite, Zvi Ben-Dor (2013). Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics and Culture. Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press. pp. 4–5.
- ↑ Gerber, Jane (1995). Sephardic Studies in the University. United States: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 73.
- ↑ Little is known about the Dolya massacre. According to Ben-Jacob, Salonican Jewish merchants returning home from an annual fair in present day Macedonia were massacred by brigands. A fast day was designated by the rabbis to be observed by all Salonican Jews across generations at commemoration ceremonies at the Talmud Tora. When the Talmud Tora was destroyed in a fire in 1620 the community memory of the massacre faded,
- ↑ Herzog, Christoph; Wittmann, Richard (2019). Istanbul - Kushta - Constantinople:Narratives of Identity in the Ottoman Capital 1830-1930. United Kingdom: Routledge.