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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... French , English , American - compiled conscientiously by gener- ations of long - departed foreign consuls . Drawing on such materials , I begin with the city's conquest by Sultan Murad II in 1430 , delineate its daily life under his ...
... French , English , American - compiled conscientiously by gener- ations of long - departed foreign consuls . Drawing on such materials , I begin with the city's conquest by Sultan Murad II in 1430 , delineate its daily life under his ...
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... French priest , was impressed by the khans , hostelries as large as churches , " which the Bachas and other Turkish signors build superbly to lodge travellers , without care for their station in life or religion , each one being made ...
... French priest , was impressed by the khans , hostelries as large as churches , " which the Bachas and other Turkish signors build superbly to lodge travellers , without care for their station in life or religion , each one being made ...
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... French and English approached the Porte . It was an early modern world war . " In the midst of this bitter conflict the Ottoman authorities exploited their enemy's anti - Jewish measures just as they had welcomed other Jewish refugees ...
... French and English approached the Porte . It was an early modern world war . " In the midst of this bitter conflict the Ottoman authorities exploited their enemy's anti - Jewish measures just as they had welcomed other Jewish refugees ...
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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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