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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... late Nancy Crawshaw, the late Mando Dalianis, Nicholas De Lange, Katy Fleming, Ben Fortna, Norman Gilbertson, Eyal Ginio, Jacqueline Golden, Dimitri Gondicas, Vasilis Gounaris, Ashbel Green, Eleni Haidia, Bill Hamilton, Renée Hirschon ...
... late Nancy Crawshaw, the late Mando Dalianis, Nicholas De Lange, Katy Fleming, Ben Fortna, Norman Gilbertson, Eyal Ginio, Jacqueline Golden, Dimitri Gondicas, Vasilis Gounaris, Ashbel Green, Eleni Haidia, Bill Hamilton, Renée Hirschon ...
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... late Nancy Crawshaw , the late Mando Dalianis , Nicholas De Lange , Katy Fleming , Ben Fortna , Norman Gilbertson , Eyal Ginio , Jacqueline Golden , Dimitri Gondicas , Vasilis Gounaris , Ashbel Green , Eleni Haidia , Bill Hamilton ...
... late Nancy Crawshaw , the late Mando Dalianis , Nicholas De Lange , Katy Fleming , Ben Fortna , Norman Gilbertson , Eyal Ginio , Jacqueline Golden , Dimitri Gondicas , Vasilis Gounaris , Ashbel Green , Eleni Haidia , Bill Hamilton ...
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... late nineteenth century Jewish marriage contract , 1790 Watercolours of a Jewish wet - nurse and a Bulgarian peasant bride , c.1860 Panorama of Salonica , by Edward Lear , 1848 ( Ashmolean Museum , Oxford ) Prince Constantine takes the ...
... late nineteenth century Jewish marriage contract , 1790 Watercolours of a Jewish wet - nurse and a Bulgarian peasant bride , c.1860 Panorama of Salonica , by Edward Lear , 1848 ( Ashmolean Museum , Oxford ) Prince Constantine takes the ...
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... late nineteenth century The Yeni Djami The courtyard of the Mevlevi tekke , c.1917 Mevlevi dervishes , c.1900 Young Jewish man , c.1900 Leading the mourners at a grave in the Jewish cemetery , c.1916 Ottoman café in the Upper Town ...
... late nineteenth century The Yeni Djami The courtyard of the Mevlevi tekke , c.1917 Mevlevi dervishes , c.1900 Young Jewish man , c.1900 Leading the mourners at a grave in the Jewish cemetery , c.1916 Ottoman café in the Upper Town ...
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... late Ottoman city and its surroundings , c . 1910 240-241 The late Ottoman Balkan peninsula 299 Area destroyed by the 1917 fire 302-303 After the fire : the 1918 plan 334 The Balkans after 1918 344-345 The 1929 municipal city plan ...
... late Ottoman city and its surroundings , c . 1910 240-241 The late Ottoman Balkan peninsula 299 Area destroyed by the 1917 fire 302-303 After the fire : the 1918 plan 334 The Balkans after 1918 344-345 The 1929 municipal city plan ...
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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