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 12
... rabbis adjudicate on long - forgotten marital rows , business wrangles and the tribulations of a noisy , malodorous crowded town . The diary of a Ukrainian political exile depicts unruly Jewish servants drunk in the mud , gluttonous ...
... rabbis adjudicate on long - forgotten marital rows , business wrangles and the tribulations of a noisy , malodorous crowded town . The diary of a Ukrainian political exile depicts unruly Jewish servants drunk in the mud , gluttonous ...
Page 50
... rabbi was forced to remind his congregation " to stop cursing the Almighty and to accept as just everything that has hap- pened . " 10 If Europe had become for them as it was for the Marrano poet Samuel Usque " my hell on earth , " we ...
... rabbi was forced to remind his congregation " to stop cursing the Almighty and to accept as just everything that has hap- pened . " 10 If Europe had become for them as it was for the Marrano poet Samuel Usque " my hell on earth , " we ...
Page 53
... rabbi when he tried to negotiate a later reduction in the tax burden . But in 1568 , it still seemed vital to the Porte to stay on good terms with Salonica's Jews and the principal delegate , Moises Almosnino , was able to return with ...
... rabbi when he tried to negotiate a later reduction in the tax burden . But in 1568 , it still seemed vital to the Porte to stay on good terms with Salonica's Jews and the principal delegate , Moises Almosnino , was able to return with ...
Page 54
... rabbis to keep their voices down when they prayed so that they would not be heard outside . In external appearance , synagogues were modest and unobtrusive and even larger ones , like the communal Talmud Torah , were hidden well away ...
... rabbis to keep their voices down when they prayed so that they would not be heard outside . In external appearance , synagogues were modest and unobtrusive and even larger ones , like the communal Talmud Torah , were hidden well away ...
Page 55
... rabbis ' efforts to urge restraint . It took more than rabbinical commands , however , to stop women wearing the diamond rozetas , almendras ( “ almonds " ) , chokers , earrings , coin necklaces and headpieces which still awed visitors ...
... rabbis ' efforts to urge restraint . It took more than rabbinical commands , however , to stop women wearing the diamond rozetas , almendras ( “ almonds " ) , chokers , earrings , coin necklaces and headpieces which still awed visitors ...
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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