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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... German biplane attracts crowds along the front A refugee camp inside the city , 1916 ( Imperial War Museum ) Devastation in the town centre following the 1917 fire ( Imperial War Museum ) First meeting of the town planners , 1917 Ernest ...
... German biplane attracts crowds along the front A refugee camp inside the city , 1916 ( Imperial War Museum ) Devastation in the town centre following the 1917 fire ( Imperial War Museum ) First meeting of the town planners , 1917 Ernest ...
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... Germans in those few weeks in 1943 when more than forty - five thousand Jews - one fifth of the city's entire population- were consigned to Auschwitz . These files showed how the deportations had affected Salonica itself by triggering ...
... Germans in those few weeks in 1943 when more than forty - five thousand Jews - one fifth of the city's entire population- were consigned to Auschwitz . These files showed how the deportations had affected Salonica itself by triggering ...
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... Germans and most of them killed . The Greek civil war had just ended in the tri- umph of the anti - communist Right , and the city was set for the rapid and entirely unexpected pell - mell postwar expansion which saw its population ...
... Germans and most of them killed . The Greek civil war had just ended in the tri- umph of the anti - communist Right , and the city was set for the rapid and entirely unexpected pell - mell postwar expansion which saw its population ...
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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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