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The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941

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Authors:
  1. Katerina Lagos

    1. Department of History, California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, USA

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  • Addresses a lacuna in historical research by giving attention to the years leading up the Second World War in Greece
  • Uncovers behaviors and attitudes towards Greek minorities prior to the Holocaust
  • Illuminates the actions of the Greek government in the interwar period using unpublished archival sources

Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Jewry and Ioannis Metaxas

    • Katerina Lagos
    Pages 1-37

  3. Jewish Communities and Antisemitism in Greece: Nineteenth-Century Conflict and the Rise of Political Antisemitism

    • Katerina Lagos
    Pages 39-74

  4. Twentieth-Century Hostility and Obligatory Integration: Marginalization and Distrust of the “Inassimilables”

    • Katerina Lagos
    Pages 75-119

  5. The Ideological Leanings of the Metaxist Regime and Greek Jewry

    • Katerina Lagos
    Pages 121-163

  6. Metaxist Domestic Policies and Societal Perceptions

    • Katerina Lagos
    Pages 165-203

  7. The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Jewry: Domestic Suspicion and International Support

    • Katerina Lagos
    Pages 205-242

  8. Conclusions

    • Katerina Lagos
    Pages 243-250

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 251-273
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About this book

Delving into a traditionally underexplored period, this book focuses on the treatment of Greek Jews under the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas in the years leading up to the Second World War. Almost 86% of Greek Jews died in the Holocaust, leading many to think this was because of Metaxas and his fascist ideology. However, the situation in Greece was much more complicated; in fact, Metaxas in his policies often attempted to quash anti-Semitism. The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941 explores how the Jews fit (and did not fit) into Metaxas's vision for Greece. Drawing on unpublished archival sources and Holocaust survivor testimonies, this book presents a ground-breaking contribution to Greek history, the history of Greek anti-Semitism, and sheds light on attitudes towards Jews during the interwar period.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, USA

    Katerina Lagos

About the author

Katerina Lagos is Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS), in the USA, and the Director of the Angelo K. Tsakopoulos Hellenic Studies Center and Hellenic Studies Program. Katerina teaches modern European and Greek history, having previously studied at the University of Washington, New York University, and St. Antony’s College, Oxford. She has published on interwar Greece, minorities, and has co-edited The Greek Military Dictatorship: Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967-1974 (2021). 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941

  • Authors: Katerina Lagos

  • Series Title: St Antony's Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20533-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20532-3Published: 04 February 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20535-4Published: 04 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-20533-0Published: 03 February 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2633-5964

  • Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 273

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Modern Europe, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Judaism, History of Religion, Political History

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