Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950HarperCollins, 2004 - 525 pages The history of a rarely written about, bewilderingly exotic city: 500 years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. Salonica is the point where the wonders and horrors of the Orient and Europe have met over the centuries. Written with a Pepysian sense of the texture of daily life in the city through the ages, and with breathtakingly detailed historical research, Salonica will evoke the sights, smells, habits, songs and responses of a unique city and its inhabitants. The history of Salonica is one of forgotten alternatives and wrong choices, of identities assumed and discarded. For centuries Muslims, Christians, and Jews have succeeded each other in ascendancy, each people intent on erasing the presence of their predecessors, and the result is a city of cultural traditions and memories of extreme violence and genocide, one that sits on the overlapping hinterlands of both Europe and the East. |
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Page 334
... first voluntary , then forced - depleted the place of Muslims ; the cemetery was desecrated , its walls were torn down , the tombstones and urns sold off for building materials . When the bones of distinguished former sheykhs were ...
... first voluntary , then forced - depleted the place of Muslims ; the cemetery was desecrated , its walls were torn down , the tombstones and urns sold off for building materials . When the bones of distinguished former sheykhs were ...
Page 435
... first letter , dated from 5-7 March 1943 , when the cordons were placed for the first time round the Jewish zones , she writes : ' When God will unite us , we do not know ... Will God have pity on me not to fall ill if they do not ...
... first letter , dated from 5-7 March 1943 , when the cordons were placed for the first time round the Jewish zones , she writes : ' When God will unite us , we do not know ... Will God have pity on me not to fall ill if they do not ...
Page 449
... first survivors from Auschwitz . " The first to arrive was an Athenian Jew called Leon Batis who reached Salonica from the north on 15 March . That evening , tired , irritated and suspicious , eager to get on to Athens to see whether ...
... first survivors from Auschwitz . " The first to arrive was an Athenian Jew called Leon Batis who reached Salonica from the north on 15 March . That evening , tired , irritated and suspicious , eager to get on to Athens to see whether ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Conquest 1430 | 15 |
Mosques and Hamams 31 | 31 |
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