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 424
... German consul had been sending detailed information about the community back to Berlin since 1938 , and local German agents and collaborationist Greek anti - Semites were constantly suggesting anti - Jewish measures . Heinrich Himmler ...
... German consul had been sending detailed information about the community back to Berlin since 1938 , and local German agents and collaborationist Greek anti - Semites were constantly suggesting anti - Jewish measures . Heinrich Himmler ...
Page 429
... German desire for action . Salonican Jews with Italian citizenship were reassured that they would be protected from German racial poli- cies if these were introduced and in May 1942 , the Italians told the Germans that they saw no need ...
... German desire for action . Salonican Jews with Italian citizenship were reassured that they would be protected from German racial poli- cies if these were introduced and in May 1942 , the Italians told the Germans that they saw no need ...
Page 447
... Germans kept going around him to hand properties out . By 23 June , the organization had placed only 300 care- takers of whom 256 were German nominees . In July 1943 , when Bulgarian troops marched further into Greek territory , the German ...
... Germans kept going around him to hand properties out . By 23 June , the organization had placed only 300 care- takers of whom 256 were German nominees . In July 1943 , when Bulgarian troops marched further into Greek territory , the German ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Conquest 1430 | 15 |
Mosques and Hamams 31 | 31 |
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