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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... penetrating eye for detail . If the past is another country , the author allows us to travel there . " - " Books of the Year , " The Sunday Telegraph ( London ) Mark Mazower is professor of history at Columbia Univer- sity.
... penetrating eye for detail . If the past is another country , the author allows us to travel there . " - " Books of the Year , " The Sunday Telegraph ( London ) Mark Mazower is professor of history at Columbia Univer- sity.
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... Past II In the Frankish Style 12 The Macedonia Question , 1878-1908 13 The Young Turk Revolution PART III / Making the City Greek 14 The Return of Saint Dimitrios 15 The First World War ix xi XV 3 17 32 46 64 94 114 133 150 175 192 209 ...
... Past II In the Frankish Style 12 The Macedonia Question , 1878-1908 13 The Young Turk Revolution PART III / Making the City Greek 14 The Return of Saint Dimitrios 15 The First World War ix xi XV 3 17 32 46 64 94 114 133 150 175 192 209 ...
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... past that was absent from the urban landscape of southern Greece—Turkish neighbourhoods that had outlived the departure of their inhabitants; fountains with their dedicatory inscriptions intact; at dervish tomb, now shuttered and locked ...
... past that was absent from the urban landscape of southern Greece—Turkish neighbourhoods that had outlived the departure of their inhabitants; fountains with their dedicatory inscriptions intact; at dervish tomb, now shuttered and locked ...
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... past , more intimately linked to neighbouring peoples , languages and cultures . The crowded alleys of the market offered shade as I pushed past carts piled high with figs , nuts , bootleg Fifth Avenue shirts and pirated cassettes ...
... past , more intimately linked to neighbouring peoples , languages and cultures . The crowded alleys of the market offered shade as I pushed past carts piled high with figs , nuts , bootleg Fifth Avenue shirts and pirated cassettes ...
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... past , tsipouro and mezedes were smoothing the passage from work to siesta . There were fewer back - packers in evidence here than in the tourist dives around the Acropolis , more housewives , porters and farmers on their weekly trip ...
... past , tsipouro and mezedes were smoothing the passage from work to siesta . There were fewer back - packers in evidence here than in the tourist dives around the Acropolis , more housewives , porters and farmers on their weekly trip ...
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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