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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... group that made up the fabric of Salonica is an act of compassion for their suffering , a recognition of their gifts and aspi- rations , an acknowledgment of their common humanity . " -Los Angeles Times " Mark Mazower's new book is a ...
... group that made up the fabric of Salonica is an act of compassion for their suffering , a recognition of their gifts and aspi- rations , an acknowledgment of their common humanity . " -Los Angeles Times " Mark Mazower's new book is a ...
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... group and the docks stood silent on the Jewish Sabbath. Jews were wealthy businessmen; but many more were porters and casual labourers, tailors, wandering street vendors, beggars, fishermen and tobacco workers. Today the only traces of ...
... group and the docks stood silent on the Jewish Sabbath. Jews were wealthy businessmen; but many more were porters and casual labourers, tailors, wandering street vendors, beggars, fishermen and tobacco workers. Today the only traces of ...
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... group and the docks stood silent on the Jewish Sabbath . Jews were wealthy busi- nessmen ; but many more were porters and casual labourers , tailors , wandering street vendors , beggars , fishermen and tobacco workers . Today the only ...
... group and the docks stood silent on the Jewish Sabbath . Jews were wealthy busi- nessmen ; but many more were porters and casual labourers , tailors , wandering street vendors , beggars , fishermen and tobacco workers . Today the only ...
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... group's loss was another's gain : 1430 - when the Byzantine city fell to Sultan Murad II — was a catastrophe for the Christians but a triumph for the Turks . Nearly five centuries later , the Greek victory in 1912 reversed the equation ...
... group's loss was another's gain : 1430 - when the Byzantine city fell to Sultan Murad II — was a catastrophe for the Christians but a triumph for the Turks . Nearly five centuries later , the Greek victory in 1912 reversed the equation ...
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... group of Christian messengers to urge surrender . These got no more favourable a response than before . Prompted by the sight of a Venetian vessel sail- ing into the Gulf , and fearing the garrison was about to be reinforced , Murad ...
... group of Christian messengers to urge surrender . These got no more favourable a response than before . Prompted by the sight of a Venetian vessel sail- ing into the Gulf , and fearing the garrison was about to be reinforced , Murad ...
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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