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 9
... authorities built the university campus over the site . Everyone , it seemed , had their story to tell , even though at that time what had happened to the city's Jews was not something much dis- cussed in scholarly circles . A little ...
... authorities built the university campus over the site . Everyone , it seemed , had their story to tell , even though at that time what had happened to the city's Jews was not something much dis- cussed in scholarly circles . A little ...
Page 34
... authorities was scarcely flourishing . " One can hear only from the more elderly people , " wrote Anagnostes after his return from captivity , " that such and such a church was here , another one was there , and what the beauty and ...
... authorities was scarcely flourishing . " One can hear only from the more elderly people , " wrote Anagnostes after his return from captivity , " that such and such a church was here , another one was there , and what the beauty and ...
Page 49
... authorities to direct the Jews there ? It seems likely , although no such directive has survived . According to a later chronicler , he sent orders to provincial governors to welcome the new- comers . Since Salonica was the empire's ...
... authorities to direct the Jews there ? It seems likely , although no such directive has survived . According to a later chronicler , he sent orders to provincial governors to welcome the new- comers . Since Salonica was the empire's ...
Page 53
... authorities . For the Ottomans were not modern capitalists . They did not aim at unlimited growth in unrestricted markets but rather at the creation and maintenance of a basically closed system to keep towns alive — in partic- ular the ...
... authorities . For the Ottomans were not modern capitalists . They did not aim at unlimited growth in unrestricted markets but rather at the creation and maintenance of a basically closed system to keep towns alive — in partic- ular the ...
Page 54
... authorities in Ancona started up the auto - da - fé in 1556 , and one even talked about spreading plague deliberately to frighten the Catholics in an early attempt at bio- logical warfare . 19 Greeks and Turks must have been astonished ...
... authorities in Ancona started up the auto - da - fé in 1556 , and one even talked about spreading plague deliberately to frighten the Catholics in an early attempt at bio- logical warfare . 19 Greeks and Turks must have been astonished ...
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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