The Largest Mill in the Orient (Postcard)

Vitaliano Poselli

ca. 1900–1912

When the Allatini Mills building was built in 1898, it was considered the largest industrial building in the “Orient” (then the catch-all term for the non-European world east of Europe). The first modern flour mill in Salonika, it was owned by the Allatinis, one of the city’s wealthiest Jewish families. The building stood as a visual testament to the prominence of Jewish Salonika, a majority-Jewish city that was home to more Sephardic Jews than any other single community in the world. The Allatini Mills building was considered a landmark, and the Christian Italian architect who designed it, Vitaliano Poselli, also designed many other public and private buildings in the city.

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Private collection of Julia Phillips Cohen.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.

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