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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... home from home. Imust also acknowledge a debt to the extraordinary array of devoted scholars—am0ng them Alexandra Karadimou-Xerolympou, Georgios Anastassiadis, Vasilis Colonnas, Vasilis Dimitriades, Evangelos Hekimoglou, Rena Molho ...
... home from home. Imust also acknowledge a debt to the extraordinary array of devoted scholars—am0ng them Alexandra Karadimou-Xerolympou, Georgios Anastassiadis, Vasilis Colonnas, Vasilis Dimitriades, Evangelos Hekimoglou, Rena Molho ...
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... home from home . I must also acknowledge a debt to the extraordinary array of devoted scholars among them Alexandra Karadimou - Yerolympou , Georgios Anastassiadis , Vasilis Colonnas , Vasilis Dimitriades , Evangelos Hekimoglou , Rena ...
... home from home . I must also acknowledge a debt to the extraordinary array of devoted scholars among them Alexandra Karadimou - Yerolympou , Georgios Anastassiadis , Vasilis Colonnas , Vasilis Dimitriades , Evangelos Hekimoglou , Rena ...
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... home of a Jewish merchant to examine Las Incan- tadas . Sketch from 1754 The Arch of Galerius at the end of the main street as drawn by Edward Lear , 1848 ( Houghton Library , Harvard University ) Jewish singers and musicians , late ...
... home of a Jewish merchant to examine Las Incan- tadas . Sketch from 1754 The Arch of Galerius at the end of the main street as drawn by Edward Lear , 1848 ( Houghton Library , Harvard University ) Jewish singers and musicians , late ...
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... homes in brick or wood—often no more than a single small room with a pri\y attached: a pot of geraniums brightened the window-ledge, a rag rug bleached by the sun served as a door mat, clotheslines were stretched from house to house ...
... homes in brick or wood—often no more than a single small room with a pri\y attached: a pot of geraniums brightened the window-ledge, a rag rug bleached by the sun served as a door mat, clotheslines were stretched from house to house ...
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... home of wealthy nineteenth-century jewish industrialists, the Allatinis; this was where Sultan Abdul Hamid had been ... homes with their friends and found food still warm on the table. A forty-year-old woman who happened to sit next to ...
... home of wealthy nineteenth-century jewish industrialists, the Allatinis; this was where Sultan Abdul Hamid had been ... homes with their friends and found food still warm on the table. A forty-year-old woman who happened to sit next to ...
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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