The Memories of Greek Jewish Left-Wing Activism from Avraam Benaroya to Michael Moissis Bourlas
This article by Graduate Fellow Alexandra Ritsatos examines how Greek Jewish left-wing activists remembered political struggle, resistance, and identity across the twentieth century. Through the memoirs of Avraam Benaroya and Michael Moissis Bourlas, it explores the intersections of Jewish life, socialism, the Holocaust, and postwar memory in modern Greece. Benaroya was a pioneering Jewish socialist and labor organizer whose influence shaped Greek labor history, while Bourlas's memoirs illuminate the experiences of Jewish resistance and left-wing activism in the aftermath of war.
