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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Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. Illustrations COLOUR Sixteenth - century icon of Saint Dimitrios ... Jewish merchant and doctor in Ottoman dress , Istanbul , 1574 ( Gen- nadius Library , American School of Classical ...
Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. Illustrations COLOUR Sixteenth - century icon of Saint Dimitrios ... Jewish merchant and doctor in Ottoman dress , Istanbul , 1574 ( Gen- nadius Library , American School of Classical ...
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... Jewish Sabbath. Jews were wealthy businessmen; but many more were porters and casual labourers, tailors, wandering street vendors, beggars, fishermen and tobacco workers. Today the only traces of their predominance that survive are some ...
... Jewish Sabbath. Jews were wealthy businessmen; but many more were porters and casual labourers, tailors, wandering street vendors, beggars, fishermen and tobacco workers. Today the only traces of their predominance that survive are some ...
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... Jewish Sabbath . Jews were wealthy busi- nessmen ; but many more were porters and casual labourers , tailors , wandering street vendors , beggars , fishermen and tobacco workers . Today the only traces of their predominance that survive ...
... Jewish Sabbath . Jews were wealthy busi- nessmen ; but many more were porters and casual labourers , tailors , wandering street vendors , beggars , fishermen and tobacco workers . Today the only traces of their predominance that survive ...
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... Jews was not something much dis- cussed in scholarly circles . A little later , in Athens , I came across several dusty unopened sacks of documents at the Central Board of Jewish Communities . When I examined them , I found a mass of ...
... Jews was not something much dis- cussed in scholarly circles . A little later , in Athens , I came across several dusty unopened sacks of documents at the Central Board of Jewish Communities . When I examined them , I found a mass of ...
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... Jews , as the Ottoman traveller Evliya Chelebi noted , called the city " our Salonica " -a place where , in addition to Turkish , Greek and Bulgarian , most of the inhabitants " know the Jewish tongue because day and night they are in ...
... Jews , as the Ottoman traveller Evliya Chelebi noted , called the city " our Salonica " -a place where , in addition to Turkish , Greek and Bulgarian , most of the inhabitants " know the Jewish tongue because day and night they are in ...
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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