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 59
... chief rabbi.26 Yet not only did the Ottoman authorities apparently not bother with a centralized imperial Jewish hierarchy based in the capital , they scarcely bothered to formalize how the Jews organized themselves in Salonica either ...
... chief rabbi.26 Yet not only did the Ottoman authorities apparently not bother with a centralized imperial Jewish hierarchy based in the capital , they scarcely bothered to formalize how the Jews organized themselves in Salonica either ...
Page 163
... chief rabbi of the city was recognized officially only in 1836. The religious , legal and administrative head of the community , he was responsible for the collection and allocation of taxes , the interpretation of laws , and the ...
... chief rabbi of the city was recognized officially only in 1836. The religious , legal and administrative head of the community , he was responsible for the collection and allocation of taxes , the interpretation of laws , and the ...
Page 164
... rabbis in the past . But the chief rabbi profited from the centralization of communal power , the waning of Greek influence after 1821 , and the growing grip of the Jews on the city's economy . ' The Bankers , Cashiers , Buyers and ...
... rabbis in the past . But the chief rabbi profited from the centralization of communal power , the waning of Greek influence after 1821 , and the growing grip of the Jews on the city's economy . ' The Bankers , Cashiers , Buyers and ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Conquest 1430 | 15 |
Mosques and Hamams 31 | 31 |
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