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
... brought centuries ofjewish life to an abrupt end. \\'hen Kurt \\"aldheim, the Austrian politician who had served in the city as an army officer, was accused of being involved in the deportations, I came back to Salonica to talk to ...
... brought centuries ofjewish life to an abrupt end. \\'hen Kurt \\"aldheim, the Austrian politician who had served in the city as an army officer, was accused of being involved in the deportations, I came back to Salonica to talk to ...
Page 8
... brought centuries of Jewish life to an abrupt end . When Kurt Waldheim , the Austrian politician who had served in the city as an army officer , was accused of being involved in the deportations , I came back to Salonica to talk to sur ...
... brought centuries of Jewish life to an abrupt end . When Kurt Waldheim , the Austrian politician who had served in the city as an army officer , was accused of being involved in the deportations , I came back to Salonica to talk to sur ...
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... then what he called its " hybrid spirit " has been severely battered by two world wars and everything they brought with them . I think it is worth trying again . IN THE 1930s , the spirit of the Sufi holy I I Introduction.
... then what he called its " hybrid spirit " has been severely battered by two world wars and everything they brought with them . I think it is worth trying again . IN THE 1930s , the spirit of the Sufi holy I I Introduction.
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... brought it down by donkey into the city each summer . With nearby salteries vital for preserving cod and meat , abundant fish in the bay , partridge , hare , rabbits and tortoises in the nearby 20 SALONICA , CITY OF GHOSTS.
... brought it down by donkey into the city each summer . With nearby salteries vital for preserving cod and meat , abundant fish in the bay , partridge , hare , rabbits and tortoises in the nearby 20 SALONICA , CITY OF GHOSTS.
Page 27
... brought up as Muslims— which must have caused distress . But returning in 1393 , Archbishop Isidoros described the situation as better than he had anticipated , while the Russian monk Ignatius of Smolensk who visited in 1401 was still ...
... brought up as Muslims— which must have caused distress . But returning in 1393 , Archbishop Isidoros described the situation as better than he had anticipated , while the Russian monk Ignatius of Smolensk who visited in 1401 was still ...
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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