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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... forced labour. Two elderly men, not Jewish, whom I bumped into on Markos Botsaris Street, told me about the day the Jews had been led away in 1943: they were tea at the time, they said, and afterwards, they broke into their homes with ...
... forced labour. Two elderly men, not Jewish, whom I bumped into on Markos Botsaris Street, told me about the day the Jews had been led away in 1943: they were tea at the time, they said, and afterwards, they broke into their homes with ...
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... forced exchange of populations in 1923 — when more than thirty thousand Muslim refugees departed , and nearly one hundred thousand Orthodox Christians took their place— suddenly turn one city into a new one ? Was the sense of urban ...
... forced exchange of populations in 1923 — when more than thirty thousand Muslim refugees departed , and nearly one hundred thousand Orthodox Christians took their place— suddenly turn one city into a new one ? Was the sense of urban ...
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... forced labour . Two elderly men , not Jewish , whom I bumped into on Markos Botsaris Street , told me about the day the Jews had been led away in 1943 : they were ten at the time , they said , and afterwards , they broke into their ...
... forced labour . Two elderly men , not Jewish , whom I bumped into on Markos Botsaris Street , told me about the day the Jews had been led away in 1943 : they were ten at the time , they said , and afterwards , they broke into their ...
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... forced resettlements and genocide which it has also experienced ? Nearly a century ago , a local historian attempted this : at a time when Salonica's ultimate fate was uncertain , the city struck him as a " museum of idioms , of ...
... forced resettlements and genocide which it has also experienced ? Nearly a century ago , a local historian attempted this : at a time when Salonica's ultimate fate was uncertain , the city struck him as a " museum of idioms , of ...
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... forced from their old ones elsewhere . Similar transformations occurred in cities across a wide swathe of the globe - in Lviv , for instance , Wroslaw , Vilna and Tiflis , Jerusalem , Jaffa and Lahore . Each of these endured its own ...
... forced from their old ones elsewhere . Similar transformations occurred in cities across a wide swathe of the globe - in Lviv , for instance , Wroslaw , Vilna and Tiflis , Jerusalem , Jaffa and Lahore . Each of these endured its own ...
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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