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 9
... officials . I started to think about deportations in general , and the Holocaust in particular , not so much in terms of victims and perpetrators , but rather as chapters in the life of cities . The Jews were killed , almost all of them ...
... officials . I started to think about deportations in general , and the Holocaust in particular , not so much in terms of victims and perpetrators , but rather as chapters in the life of cities . The Jews were killed , almost all of them ...
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... official tome from 1962 which had been published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its capture from the Turks contained almost no mention of them at all ; the subject had been regarded as taboo by the politicians mastermind ...
... official tome from 1962 which had been published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its capture from the Turks contained almost no mention of them at all ; the subject had been regarded as taboo by the politicians mastermind ...
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... officials at his court , and crafts- men , attracted by tax breaks , were resettled from the nearby town of Yannitsa and from Anatolia . Their arrival injected new blood into the urban economy . But it was a major blow to the city's ...
... officials at his court , and crafts- men , attracted by tax breaks , were resettled from the nearby town of Yannitsa and from Anatolia . Their arrival injected new blood into the urban economy . But it was a major blow to the city's ...
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... officials were often responsible for both and in contrast to the Romano - Byzantine tradition there was no municipal government in the strict sense . City - based tax farmers controlled the local salteries and city officials were ...
... officials were often responsible for both and in contrast to the Romano - Byzantine tradition there was no municipal government in the strict sense . City - based tax farmers controlled the local salteries and city officials were ...
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... officials , especially those who had bought conces- sions for customs duties , and on the needs of the city in ... official regulated the buying and selling of " all that God has created . " He and his assistants paid weekly visits to ...
... officials , especially those who had bought conces- sions for customs duties , and on the needs of the city in ... official regulated the buying and selling of " all that God has created . " He and his assistants paid weekly visits 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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