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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... arrive at the home of a Jewish merchant to examine Las Incan- tadas . Sketch from 1754 The Arch of Galerius at the end of the main street as drawn by Edward Lear , 1848 ( Houghton Library , Harvard University ) Jewish singers and ...
... arrive at the home of a Jewish merchant to examine Las Incan- tadas . Sketch from 1754 The Arch of Galerius at the end of the main street as drawn by Edward Lear , 1848 ( Houghton Library , Harvard University ) Jewish singers and ...
Page xiii
... arrive in Macedonia Cretan gendarmes ( Imperial War Museum ) Venizelos arrives by sea to lead Greece into the First World War , 9 October 1916 ( Imperial War Museum ) A German biplane attracts crowds along the front A refugee camp ...
... arrive in Macedonia Cretan gendarmes ( Imperial War Museum ) Venizelos arrives by sea to lead Greece into the First World War , 9 October 1916 ( Imperial War Museum ) A German biplane attracts crowds along the front A refugee camp ...
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... arrived. The cypresses, firs and rosebushes in their gardens were overgrown with ivy and creeping vines, their formerly bright colours bad faded into pastel shades of yellow, ochre and cream. Here were vestiges of a past that was absent ...
... arrived. The cypresses, firs and rosebushes in their gardens were overgrown with ivy and creeping vines, their formerly bright colours bad faded into pastel shades of yellow, ochre and cream. Here were vestiges of a past that was absent ...
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... arrived at a busy crossroads : beyond lay the city centre . The unremitting heat and the din of the traffic reminded me of what I had left several hours away in Athens but despite this I knew I had been transported into another world ...
... arrived at a busy crossroads : beyond lay the city centre . The unremitting heat and the din of the traffic reminded me of what I had left several hours away in Athens but despite this I knew I had been transported into another world ...
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... arrived only in 1912 and those grandmothers chatting quietly in the yards outside their homes had probably been born subjects of Sultan Abdul Hamid . The still magnificent eight - mile circuit of ancient walls embraced a densely ...
... arrived only in 1912 and those grandmothers chatting quietly in the yards outside their homes had probably been born subjects of Sultan Abdul Hamid . The still magnificent eight - mile circuit of ancient walls embraced a densely ...
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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