{"product_id":"the-night-fishermen-of-thessaloniki-greek-sephardic-men-who-operated-a-maritime-escape-network-for-600-jews-before-deportation-began-9798235661608","title":"The Night Fishermen Of Thessaloniki: Greek Sephardic Men Who Operated a Maritime Escape Network for 600 Jews Before Deportation Began","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Yitzhak Namias\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Max\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Max\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Jewish Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the winter of 1943, while the trains were loading, the fishermen took their boats out.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey were Sephardic Jews of Thessaloniki, men who had learned to read the Aegean before they learned to read books. What they knew was the sea at night: the currents, the silences, the exact window between one German patrol and the next. What they did with that knowledge was carry six hundred people to safety in the dark, one crossing at a time, without weapons, without recognition, and without leaving a single written record behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of what they did, and of the civilization they were trying to save, and of the forty-six thousand people they could not reach in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a book about courage that did not announce itself. About a community that carried medieval Spain in its language and ancient Palestine in its prayers, and built something irreplaceable on the shores of northern Greece for four and a half centuries, before the trains came and took most of it away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sea is still there. The boats are gone. The names of the men who sailed them are in these pages, at last.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBased on twelve years of archival research across Israel, Greece, France, and Germany, drawing on survivor testimonies from Yad Vashem and the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Max","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968627654807,"sku":"9798235661608","price":3233.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798235661608.webp?v=1782918833","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-night-fishermen-of-thessaloniki-greek-sephardic-men-who-operated-a-maritime-escape-network-for-600-jews-before-deportation-began-9798235661608","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}