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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... formed part of a fascinating and little - known history unparalleled in Europe . Enjoying the favour of the sultans , the Jews , as the Ottoman traveller Evliya Chelebi noted , called the city " our Salonica " -a place where , in ...
... formed part of a fascinating and little - known history unparalleled in Europe . Enjoying the favour of the sultans , the Jews , as the Ottoman traveller Evliya Chelebi noted , called the city " our Salonica " -a place where , in ...
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... formed a delicate bright cluster , like a swarm of fire - flies on the horizon . " 7 Murad's use of the Ottoman colonization technique of forced reset- tlement worked : the settlers kick - started Salonica's economy and more than ...
... formed a delicate bright cluster , like a swarm of fire - flies on the horizon . " 7 Murad's use of the Ottoman colonization technique of forced reset- tlement worked : the settlers kick - started Salonica's economy and more than ...
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... formed part of a bitter struggle for power between Islam and Catholicism . One might almost see this as the con- test to reunify the Roman Empire between the two great monotheistic religions that had succeeded it : on the one side , the ...
... formed part of a bitter struggle for power between Islam and Catholicism . One might almost see this as the con- test to reunify the Roman Empire between the two great monotheistic religions that had succeeded it : on the one side , the ...
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... formed part of the same Ottoman realm . As in Spain , the Jews came to feel as one historian has put it- " at home in exile " and had no desire to uproot themselves once more , not even when the destination was the Land their holy books ...
... formed part of the same Ottoman realm . As in Spain , the Jews came to feel as one historian has put it- " at home in exile " and had no desire to uproot themselves once more , not even when the destination was the Land their holy books ...
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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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