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 8
... Turkish army officers , Greek and Bulgarian merchants and Jewish industrialists . Turks and Bulgarians figured prominently in the histories of Greece I had read , usually as ancestral enemies , but the Jews were in general remarkable ...
... Turkish army officers , Greek and Bulgarian merchants and Jewish industrialists . Turks and Bulgarians figured prominently in the histories of Greece I had read , usually as ancestral enemies , but the Jews were in general remarkable ...
Page 10
... Turkish , Greek and Bulgarian , most of the inhabitants " know the Jewish tongue because day and night they are in contact with , and conduct business with Jews . " Yet as I supplemented my knowledge of the Greek metropolis with books ...
... Turkish , Greek and Bulgarian , most of the inhabitants " know the Jewish tongue because day and night they are in contact with , and conduct business with Jews . " Yet as I supplemented my knowledge of the Greek metropolis with books ...
Page 12
... Turkish janissaries and Byzantine necropoles . One reads stories of hidden Roman catacombs , doomed love - affairs and the unquiet souls who haunt the decaying villas near the sea . One hears rumours of buried Jewish treasure guarded by ...
... Turkish janissaries and Byzantine necropoles . One reads stories of hidden Roman catacombs , doomed love - affairs and the unquiet souls who haunt the decaying villas near the sea . One hears rumours of buried Jewish treasure guarded by ...
Page 25
... Turkish tribes had moved in from central Asia , and the rise and fall of the Seljuk sul- tans turned Anatolia into a battleground between competing emirates . That the empire survived at all was owing to the weakness of its ene- mies ...
... Turkish tribes had moved in from central Asia , and the rise and fall of the Seljuk sul- tans turned Anatolia into a battleground between competing emirates . That the empire survived at all was owing to the weakness of its ene- mies ...
Page 26
... , many opted for the latter . Written off as an embarrassment by later Greek commentators , the pro - Turkish current in late Byzantine politics was in fact a powerful one for the Ottomans , who could be seen as 26 SALONICA , CITY OF ...
... , many opted for the latter . Written off as an embarrassment by later Greek commentators , the pro - Turkish current in late Byzantine politics was in fact a powerful one for the Ottomans , who could be seen as 26 SALONICA , CITY OF ...
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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