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 8
... passed a dozen or more of these shrines to the eclectic taste of its fin-de-siecle elite—Turkish army officers, Greek and Bulgarian merchants and Jewish industrialists. Turks and Bulgarians figured prominently in the histories of Greece ...
... passed a dozen or more of these shrines to the eclectic taste of its fin-de-siecle elite—Turkish army officers, Greek and Bulgarian merchants and Jewish industrialists. Turks and Bulgarians figured prominently in the histories of Greece ...
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... passed a string of seedy hotels , and arrived at a busy crossroads : beyond lay the city centre . The unremitting heat and the din of the traffic reminded me of what I had left several hours away in Athens but despite this I knew I had ...
... passed a string of seedy hotels , and arrived at a busy crossroads : beyond lay the city centre . The unremitting heat and the din of the traffic reminded me of what I had left several hours away in Athens but despite this I knew I had ...
Page 8
... passed a dozen or more of these shrines to the eclectic taste of its fin - de - siècle elite - Turkish army officers , Greek and Bulgarian merchants and Jewish industrialists . Turks and Bulgarians figured prominently in the histories ...
... passed a dozen or more of these shrines to the eclectic taste of its fin - de - siècle elite - Turkish army officers , Greek and Bulgarian merchants and Jewish industrialists . Turks and Bulgarians figured prominently in the histories ...
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... passed through, Christians were merely a deviant Jewish sect, and members of the two faiths were buried side by side. By the late fourth century, however, Christianity had triumphed on its own terms and turned itself into a new religion ...
... passed through, Christians were merely a deviant Jewish sect, and members of the two faiths were buried side by side. By the late fourth century, however, Christianity had triumphed on its own terms and turned itself into a new religion ...
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... passed through , Christians were merely a deviant Jewish sect , and members of the two faiths were buried side by side . By the late fourth century , however , Christianity had triumphed on its own terms and turned itself into a new ...
... passed through , Christians were merely a deviant Jewish sect , and members of the two faiths were buried side by side . By the late fourth century , however , Christianity had triumphed on its own terms and turned itself into a new ...
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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