Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007 M12 18 - 544 pages Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until the twentieth century when the Greek army marched in, Muslims were forced out, and the Nazis deported and killed the Jews. As the acclaimed historian Mark Mazower follows the city’s inhabitants through plague, invasion, famine, and the disastrous twentieth century, he resurrects a fascinating and vanished world. |
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Page ix
... Athens, Aegina and Tinos, Fay Zika, Haris Vlavianos and Katerina Schina have made Greece a home from home. Imust also acknowledge a debt to the extraordinary array of devoted scholars—am0ng them Alexandra Karadimou-Xerolympou, Georgios ...
... Athens, Aegina and Tinos, Fay Zika, Haris Vlavianos and Katerina Schina have made Greece a home from home. Imust also acknowledge a debt to the extraordinary array of devoted scholars—am0ng them Alexandra Karadimou-Xerolympou, Georgios ...
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... Athens , Aegina and Tinos , Fay Zika , Haris Vlavianos and Katerina Schina have made Greece a home from home . I must also acknowledge a debt to the extraordinary array of devoted scholars among them Alexandra Karadimou - Yerolympou ...
... Athens , Aegina and Tinos , Fay Zika , Haris Vlavianos and Katerina Schina have made Greece a home from home . I must also acknowledge a debt to the extraordinary array of devoted scholars among them Alexandra Karadimou - Yerolympou ...
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... Athens , the Greek Literary and Historical Archives ( ELIA ) , the Archive of Contemporary Social History ( ASKI ) , the Newspaper Library , the Gennadios Library , the Jewish Museum of Greece and the Central Board of Jewish Communities ...
... Athens , the Greek Literary and Historical Archives ( ELIA ) , the Archive of Contemporary Social History ( ASKI ) , the Newspaper Library , the Gennadios Library , the Jewish Museum of Greece and the Central Board of Jewish Communities ...
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... Athens ) Visitors arrive at the home of a Jewish merchant to examine Las Incan- tadas . Sketch from 1754 The Arch of Galerius at the end of the main street as drawn by Edward Lear , 1848 ( Houghton Library , Harvard University ) Jewish ...
... Athens ) Visitors arrive at the home of a Jewish merchant to examine Las Incan- tadas . Sketch from 1754 The Arch of Galerius at the end of the main street as drawn by Edward Lear , 1848 ( Houghton Library , Harvard University ) Jewish ...
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... locked. Vl/ith later visits, I came to see that these traces of the Ottoman past offered a clue to Salonica's central paradox. True, it could point, as Athens could not, to more than two thousand years of 6 In fl'0lf!I("f/UII.
... locked. Vl/ith later visits, I came to see that these traces of the Ottoman past offered a clue to Salonica's central paradox. True, it could point, as Athens could not, to more than two thousand years of 6 In fl'0lf!I("f/UII.
Contents
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Messiahs Martyrs and Miracles | 64 |
Janissaries and Other Plagues | 94 |
Commerce and the Greeks | 114 |
Pashas Beys and Moneylenders | 133 |
Religion in the Age of Reform | 150 |
The Return of Saint Dimitrios | 275 |
The First World War | 286 |
The Great Fire | 298 |
The Muslim Exodus | 311 |
City of Refugees | 333 |
Workers and the State | 347 |
Dressing for the Tango | 359 |
Greeks and Jews | 375 |
Travellers and the European Imagination | 175 |
IO The Possibilities of a Past | 192 |
In the Frankish Style | 209 |
The Macedonia Question 18781908 | 238 |
The Young Turk Revolution | 255 |
Genocide | 392 |
Aftermath | 412 |
The Memory of the Dead | 429 |
Glossary | 469 |
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