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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 73
Page xiii
... buildings going up on the site of the old Jewish cemetery , 1950s Salonica 1910 Salonica , fifty years later in 1960 ( Reproduced from A. Karadimou- Yerolympou , I anoikodomisi tis Thessalonikis meta tin pyrkaia tou 1917 , by permission ...
... buildings going up on the site of the old Jewish cemetery , 1950s Salonica 1910 Salonica , fifty years later in 1960 ( Reproduced from A. Karadimou- Yerolympou , I anoikodomisi tis Thessalonikis meta tin pyrkaia tou 1917 , by permission ...
Page 6
... buildings of the postwar boom. But here there were few signs of wealth. Abutting the old walls were modest whitewashed homes in brick or wood—often no more than a single small room with a pri\y attached: a pot of geraniums brightened ...
... buildings of the postwar boom. But here there were few signs of wealth. Abutting the old walls were modest whitewashed homes in brick or wood—often no more than a single small room with a pri\y attached: a pot of geraniums brightened ...
Page 6
... buildings of the postwar boom . But here there were few signs of wealth . Abutting the old walls were modest whitewashed homes in brick or wood - often no more than a single small room with a privy attached : a pot of geraniums ...
... buildings of the postwar boom . But here there were few signs of wealth . Abutting the old walls were modest whitewashed homes in brick or wood - often no more than a single small room with a privy attached : a pot of geraniums ...
Page 7
... buildings have been recently restored and visitors can see inside the magnificent fifteenth - century Bey Hamam , the largest Ottoman baths in Greece , or admire the distinguished mansion now used as a local public library in Plateia ...
... buildings have been recently restored and visitors can see inside the magnificent fifteenth - century Bey Hamam , the largest Ottoman baths in Greece , or admire the distinguished mansion now used as a local public library in Plateia ...
Page 22
... from earlier buildings, sometimes carved specially for the church, cover the entire range of Roman design in the centuries when Christianity began to take hold of the empire. Byzantium is the name we SALONICA, CITY OF G1-l(,)STS.
... from earlier buildings, sometimes carved specially for the church, cover the entire range of Roman design in the centuries when Christianity began to take hold of the empire. Byzantium is the name we SALONICA, CITY OF G1-l(,)STS.
Contents
17 | |
32 | |
46 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abdul Albanian Anatolia army arrived Asia Minor Athens Balkan became British building Bulgarian Byzantine cafés cemetery centre century chief rabbi Christian church city's consul converted crowd Dimitrios eastern Edirne Egnatia Europe European faith fire forced French German Greece Greek hand houses hundred imperial inhabitants Islam Istanbul Italian Izmir janissaries Jewish Jewish community Jews journalist land later lived London loniki Ma'min Macedonia Marranos Mehmed merchants Mertzios Mevlevi minarets modern Molho mosque municipal Murad Muslim neighbourhood officers Orthodox Ottoman authorities Ottoman city Ottoman empire Paris Pasha peasants police political population Porte quarter refugees religion religious remained reported Russian Salonica Salonique streets sultan synagogue Thessa Thessaloniki thousand tion tis Thessalonikis took trade travellers troops Turkey Turkish turned Upper Town Vardar Venetian Venizelist Venizelos villages Vlachs walls women workers wrote YDIP Young Turks Yusuf Bey Zevi