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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... living with the subject for much longer than anyone would consider reasonable , never betrayed impa- tience at hearing yet another story about Salonica , being shown another document or driven down another side - street . Her ...
... living with the subject for much longer than anyone would consider reasonable , never betrayed impa- tience at hearing yet another story about Salonica , being shown another document or driven down another side - street . Her ...
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... living memory , for the Greek army had arrived only in 1912 and those grandmothers chatting quietly in the yards outside their homes had probably been born subjects of Sultan Abdul Hamid . The still magnificent eight - mile circuit of ...
... living memory , for the Greek army had arrived only in 1912 and those grandmothers chatting quietly in the yards outside their homes had probably been born subjects of Sultan Abdul Hamid . The still magnificent eight - mile circuit of ...
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... living for the dead . Above all , unremitting focus upon the events of the Second World War threatened to turn a remarkable chapter in Jewish , European and Ottoman history into nothing more than a prelude to genocide , over- shadowing ...
... living for the dead . Above all , unremitting focus upon the events of the Second World War threatened to turn a remarkable chapter in Jewish , European and Ottoman history into nothing more than a prelude to genocide , over- shadowing ...
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... living memory there had been cypresses and minarets , stables , owls and storks . Its transformation continues , and today Russian computer whiz - kids , Ghanaian doctors , Albanian stone- masons , Georgian labourers , Ukrainian nannies ...
... living memory there had been cypresses and minarets , stables , owls and storks . Its transformation continues , and today Russian computer whiz - kids , Ghanaian doctors , Albanian stone- masons , Georgian labourers , Ukrainian nannies ...
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... living , hard - drinking and a keen hunter , he enjoyed the affection of his sol- diers and the respect of diplomats and statesmen who encountered him . He was a brilliant warrior , who spent much of his reign building up Ottoman power ...
... living , hard - drinking and a keen hunter , he enjoyed the affection of his sol- diers and the respect of diplomats and statesmen who encountered him . He was a brilliant warrior , who spent much of his reign building up Ottoman power ...
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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