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 10
... Greek and the Jewish - did not so much complement one another as pass each other by . I had noticed how seldom standard Greek accounts of the city referred to the Jews . An official tome from 1962 which had been published to commemorate ...
... Greek and the Jewish - did not so much complement one another as pass each other by . I had noticed how seldom standard Greek accounts of the city referred to the Jews . An official tome from 1962 which had been published to commemorate ...
Page 11
... Greek gardeners for their fruit trees . Outside the Yalman family home the well was used by " the Turks , Greeks , Bulgarians , Jews , Serbs , Vlachs , and Albanians of the neighbourhood . " And in Nikos Kokantzis's moving novella Gio ...
... Greek gardeners for their fruit trees . Outside the Yalman family home the well was used by " the Turks , Greeks , Bulgarians , Jews , Serbs , Vlachs , and Albanians of the neighbourhood . " And in Nikos Kokantzis's moving novella Gio ...
Page 13
... Greeks too lost out - in Istanbul , for example , or Trabzon , Alexandria and Izmir , where thousands died during the expulsions of 1922. Cities , after all , are places of both eviction and sanctuary , and many of the Greek refugees ...
... Greeks too lost out - in Istanbul , for example , or Trabzon , Alexandria and Izmir , where thousands died during the expulsions of 1922. Cities , after all , are places of both eviction and sanctuary , and many of the Greek refugees ...
Page 18
... Greek royal decree , Salonika reverted to Thessaloniki . " In fact it had been officially known by the Greek form since the Ottomans were defeated in 1912.1 It is only foreigners who make things difficult for themselves , for the Greek ...
... Greek royal decree , Salonika reverted to Thessaloniki . " In fact it had been officially known by the Greek form since the Ottomans were defeated in 1912.1 It is only foreigners who make things difficult for themselves , for the Greek ...
Page 21
... Greeks even today will call themselves Romioi ( Romans ) . But there is nothing strange about it . The Roman empire existed here too , among the speakers of Greek , and continued to exert its spell long after it had collapsed in the ...
... Greeks even today will call themselves Romioi ( Romans ) . But there is nothing strange about it . The Roman empire existed here too , among the speakers of Greek , and continued to exert its spell long after it had collapsed in the ...
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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