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The lost world of Jewish Rhodes

Stella Levi, an Auschwitz survivor, recalls the vibrant, long-established Jewish community that existed in the Dodecanese before the Nazi deportations in 1944

4 February 2023

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4 February 2023

9:00 AM

One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes Michael Frank

Souvenir Press, pp.222, 18.99

Janet Malcolm’s formulation that a ‘journalist is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse’ comes to mind on page two of the darkly refulgent One Hundred Saturdays. That’s when the author Michael Frank mentions it was his idea to accompany his new friend, Stella Levi, on a journey back to her native Rhodes.

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