In this affectionate memoir, originally published in 1946, Sciaky looks back at the thriving, polygot Salonica of his youth. He writes of his home, schoolmates and life in a thriving Sephardic merchant community. Like many non-Greeks, the Sciaky family left Salonica in the wake of WWI, and the violence of the 1912-13 Balkan Wars.  (GRE236, $14.95)