Presentation of the book "Ilias Petropoulos – For the Jews of Thessaloniki", published by Kapon Publications, with an introduction and editorial work by Achilleas Fotakis
As noted on the book’s back cover: “It was inevitable that Ilias Petropoulos’ experiential legacy from Thessaloniki and his passion for exploring what national historiography ignored for decades would lead him to focus on the Jews of Thessaloniki […] revealing through his writings aspects of the silenced Jewish past and the everyday life of the multinational city of Thessaloniki.” Petropoulos, as a non-Jew belonging to Thessaloniki’s majority community, observes, records, and denounces the events and the deliberate forgetting chosen by the local history.
Speakers for the book presentation:
Leonidas Foivos Koskos, President of the Board of Directors, Hellenic American Union
Rachel Mistrachi-Kapon, Publisher
Minos Moisis, former President of the Jewish Community of Athens
Vana Nikolaidou-Kyrianidou, Professor of Political Philosophy, Chair of the Department of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Achilleas Fotakis, Historian
Discussion moderated by: Leonidas Foivos Koskos
Building on the perspectives of Ilias Petropoulos presented in the book, the panel will engage in an extensive discussion with the audience on cases of state and societal antisemitism.