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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Maps -- Chapter 1: Jewry and Ioannis Metaxas -- The Development of Greek Identity in the Modern Greece -- Antisemitic Expression in Greece: The "Non-Greek" Greek? -- Methodology -- Ioannis Metaxas: Cephalonian Aristocrat, Military Leader, and Royalist Politician -- Metaxas and the 4th August Regime -- Chapter 2: Jewish Communities and Antisemitism in Greece: Nineteenth-Century Conflict and the Rise of Political Antisemitism -- The Romaniotes -- The Sephardim -- Romaniotes and Sephardim Under Ottoman Rule: The Rising Dominance of the Sephardim -- Christian-Jewish Relations and the Rise of Religious and Political Antisemitism -- Christian-Jewish Relations During the Greek War of Independence and Its Aftermath -- Don Pacifico: Antisemitism, Effigy Burning, and Gunboat Diplomacy -- Corfiote Blood Libel of 1891 -- Territorial Expansion and Jewish Incorporation: Thessaly -- Chapter 3: Twentieth-Century Hostility and Obligatory Integration: Marginalization and Distrust of the "Inassimilables" -- Territorial Expansion and the "Anti-Hellenic" Jews: Crete, Ioannina, and Thessaloniki -- The Thessaloniki Fire of 1917: Disaster as Opportunity -- The Sunday Rest Day Law of 1924: Theological Vindication and Economic Boycott -- The Campbell Pogrom of 1931: Antisemitic Violence and "Jewish Treason" -- Minority Electoral Colleges: Segregating the Jews and Their "Foreign" Influence -- Chapter 4: The Ideological Leanings of the Metaxist Regime and Greek Jewry -- Metaxas and His Rise to Power -- Ideologues of the 4th August Regime -- Equality in the Metaxist Third Hellenic Civilization -- Language and Greek Identity -- Religion and Greek Identity -- EON and Opportunities for Jewish Inclusion -- Chapter 5: Metaxist Domestic Policies and Societal Perceptions -- Metaxas and Press Censorship.

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. 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. Antonys College, Oxford. She has published on interwar Greece, minorities, and has co-edited The Greek Military Dictatorship: Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967-1974 (2021).

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