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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Page 10
... noted , called the city " our Salonica " -a place where , in addition to Turkish , Greek and Bulgarian , most of the inhabitants " know the Jewish tongue because day and night they are in contact with , and conduct business with Jews ...
... noted , called the city " our Salonica " -a place where , in addition to Turkish , Greek and Bulgarian , most of the inhabitants " know the Jewish tongue because day and night they are in contact with , and conduct business with Jews ...
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... noted John Murray's Hand- book in 1854 , " including pheasants , woodcocks , wildfowl etc. " Cutting wide loops through the fields the Vardar river to the west runs low in summer , sinuous and fast in the winter months , too powerful to ...
... noted John Murray's Hand- book in 1854 , " including pheasants , woodcocks , wildfowl etc. " Cutting wide loops through the fields the Vardar river to the west runs low in summer , sinuous and fast in the winter months , too powerful to ...
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... noted , " the majority of the clergy and of the others were then still in captivity and this condition prevails up to today . " Orthodoxy - though recognized by the Ottoman authorities was scarcely flourishing . " One can hear only from ...
... noted , " the majority of the clergy and of the others were then still in captivity and this condition prevails up to today . " Orthodoxy - though recognized by the Ottoman authorities was scarcely flourishing . " One can hear only from ...
Page 48
... noted : [ The Jews ] have among them workmen of all artes and handi- craftes moste excellent , and specially of the Maranes [ Marranos ] of late banished and driven out of Spain and Portugale , who to the great detriment and damage of ...
... noted : [ The Jews ] have among them workmen of all artes and handi- craftes moste excellent , and specially of the Maranes [ Marranos ] of late banished and driven out of Spain and Portugale , who to the great detriment and damage of ...
Page 51
... noted Gonsalvo de Illescas . The sailor Diego Galan , a native of Toledo , found that the city's Jews " speak Castilian as fine and well- accented as in the imperial capital . " They were proud of their tongue- its flexibility and ...
... noted Gonsalvo de Illescas . The sailor Diego Galan , a native of Toledo , found that the city's Jews " speak Castilian as fine and well- accented as in the imperial capital . " They were proud of their tongue- its flexibility and ...
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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