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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... early chapters closely for style and were both critical and supportive . And I am hugely indebted , not for the first time , to Peter Mandler , for ploughing through the entire manuscript and giving me the benefit of his encouragement ...
... early chapters closely for style and were both critical and supportive . And I am hugely indebted , not for the first time , to Peter Mandler , for ploughing through the entire manuscript and giving me the benefit of his encouragement ...
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... early twentieth century A Muslim graveyard in open country outside the fortress in the early twentieth century Mosque and minaret in the Upper Town in the early twentieth cen- tury The Aladja Imaret An Ottoman tribunal in session Women ...
... early twentieth century A Muslim graveyard in open country outside the fortress in the early twentieth century Mosque and minaret in the Upper Town in the early twentieth cen- tury The Aladja Imaret An Ottoman tribunal in session Women ...
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... earliest mural mosaics to be found in the eastern Mediterranean. Next to it stood an elegant pencil-thin minaret, nearly one hundred and twenty feet tall. Like many visitors before me, I found myself particularly drawn to the Upper Town ...
... earliest mural mosaics to be found in the eastern Mediterranean. Next to it stood an elegant pencil-thin minaret, nearly one hundred and twenty feet tall. Like many visitors before me, I found myself particularly drawn to the Upper Town ...
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... early Christian mosaics and frescoes to be found anywhere in the world , rivalling the glories of Ravenna and Istanbul . A Byzantine public bath , hidden for much of its existence under the accumulated topsoil , still functioned high in ...
... early Christian mosaics and frescoes to be found anywhere in the world , rivalling the glories of Ravenna and Istanbul . A Byzantine public bath , hidden for much of its existence under the accumulated topsoil , still functioned high in ...
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... early twenty - first century such long - forgotten stories are eagerly awaited and sought out - but to see the experiences of Christians , Jews and Muslims within the terms of a single encompassing historical nar- rative . National ...
... early twenty - first century such long - forgotten stories are eagerly awaited and sought out - but to see the experiences of Christians , Jews and Muslims within the terms of a single encompassing historical nar- rative . National ...
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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