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 7
... allowed to crumble away , at worst written out of the record ? Had this happened by accident ? Could one blame the great fire of 1917 that had destroyed so much of its centre ? Or did the forced exchange of populations in 1923 — when ...
... allowed to crumble away , at worst written out of the record ? Had this happened by accident ? Could one blame the great fire of 1917 that had destroyed so much of its centre ? Or did the forced exchange of populations in 1923 — when ...
Page 9
... allowed outsiders to sit in easy judgement . I sometimes felt that I myself had become com- plicit in this scavenging the city for clues to destruction , ignoring the living for the dead . Above all , unremitting focus upon the events ...
... allowed outsiders to sit in easy judgement . I sometimes felt that I myself had become com- plicit in this scavenging the city for clues to destruction , ignoring the living for the dead . Above all , unremitting focus upon the events ...
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... allowed to follow the path of non- resistance that most of them wanted , the city's fate might have been less traumatic . A few months later , Ottoman troops went on to besiege the city of Jannina , and their commander , Sinan Pasha ...
... allowed to follow the path of non- resistance that most of them wanted , the city's fate might have been less traumatic . A few months later , Ottoman troops went on to besiege the city of Jannina , and their commander , Sinan Pasha ...
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... allowed to set up a consulate one year after the conquest . But the city was a shadow of its former self , a mere vestige of the flourishing metropolis of forty thousand inhabitants which had existed a decade earlier . In fact , once ...
... allowed to set up a consulate one year after the conquest . But the city was a shadow of its former self , a mere vestige of the flourishing metropolis of forty thousand inhabitants which had existed a decade earlier . In fact , once ...
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... allowed people to escape the sun and drink from fountains while enjoy- ing the views over the town . The highest officials were granted regular deliveries of ice from Mount Hortiatis , which they used mostly in the preparation of ...
... allowed people to escape the sun and drink from fountains while enjoy- ing the views over the town . The highest officials were granted regular deliveries of ice from Mount Hortiatis , which they used mostly in the preparation 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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