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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... 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 of the Second World War threatened to turn a remarkable chapter in Jewish ...
... 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 of the Second World War threatened to turn a remarkable chapter in Jewish ...
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... , for the city's position within the modern nation - state is unquestioned : the story of its passage from Ottoman to Greek hands has become ancient history . PART I The Rose of Sultan Murad I Conquest , 13 Introduction.
... , for the city's position within the modern nation - state is unquestioned : the story of its passage from Ottoman to Greek hands has become ancient history . PART I The Rose of Sultan Murad I Conquest , 13 Introduction.
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... with an argument over Macedonia , and names themselves had become a political issue in a way which few outside Greece understood . The irony was that Alexander himself never knew the city 18 SALONICA , GHOSTS CITY OF.
... with an argument over Macedonia , and names themselves had become a political issue in a way which few outside Greece understood . The irony was that Alexander himself never knew the city 18 SALONICA , GHOSTS CITY OF.
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... becoming the economic powerhouse of his empire . According to Anagnostes : " When he saw a city so large , and in such a situation , next to the sea and suitable for everything , then he grieved and wanted to reconstruct it . " 1 The ...
... becoming the economic powerhouse of his empire . According to Anagnostes : " When he saw a city so large , and in such a situation , next to the sea and suitable for everything , then he grieved and wanted to reconstruct it . " 1 The ...
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... become grand vizier , founded another mosque - imaret in the city . Yakub Pasha , a Bosnian - born vizier renowned both for his poetry and for his victories against the Austrians and Hungarians on the Croat border , endowed a mosque ...
... become grand vizier , founded another mosque - imaret in the city . Yakub Pasha , a Bosnian - born vizier renowned both for his poetry and for his victories against the Austrians and Hungarians on the Croat border , endowed a mosque ...
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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