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
... quarter imme- diately above the old Jewish cemetery : she remembered playing in the wreckage of the graves as a child , with her friends , looking for buried treasure , shortly before the authorities built the university campus over the ...
... quarter imme- diately above the old Jewish cemetery : she remembered playing in the wreckage of the graves as a child , with her friends , looking for buried treasure , shortly before the authorities built the university campus over the ...
Page 29
... quarters of the inhabitants had already fled - many into Ottoman - controlled territories and only ten thousand remained . Despite occasional Venetian grain convoys , food was scarce . Some defenders let them- selves down by ropes to ...
... quarters of the inhabitants had already fled - many into Ottoman - controlled territories and only ten thousand remained . Despite occasional Venetian grain convoys , food was scarce . Some defenders let them- selves down by ropes to ...
Page 40
... quarters for flour , textiles , spices , furs , cloth and leather goods , there was the so - called " Egyptian market ... quarter , water- mills outside the walls , and a vineyard on the slopes of Hortiatis . With the revenues from these ...
... quarters for flour , textiles , spices , furs , cloth and leather goods , there was the so - called " Egyptian market ... quarter , water- mills outside the walls , and a vineyard on the slopes of Hortiatis . With the revenues from these ...
Page 45
... quarter - the west- ern Mediterranean , where the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella were taking Christianization to a new pitch by expelling the Jews from their kingdom . Attracted by Bayazid's promises of economic concessions and ...
... quarter - the west- ern Mediterranean , where the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella were taking Christianization to a new pitch by expelling the Jews from their kingdom . Attracted by Bayazid's promises of economic concessions and ...
Page 49
... quarter . Was it a sign of their growing weakness that between 1490 and 1540 several of their most magnificent churches including Ayios Dimitrios itself— were turned into mosques ? A century later still , if we are to judge from Ottoman ...
... quarter . Was it a sign of their growing weakness that between 1490 and 1540 several of their most magnificent churches including Ayios Dimitrios itself— were turned into mosques ? A century later still , if we are to judge from Ottoman ...
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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