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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... religions will refer to this book as their principal source on the city . " -The New York Times Book Review " Mazower is a formidable historian . He has produced a majestic work : the biography of a city , complete with soul and ichor ...
... religions will refer to this book as their principal source on the city . " -The New York Times Book Review " Mazower is a formidable historian . He has produced a majestic work : the biography of a city , complete with soul and ichor ...
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... religious co - existence in the early twenty - first century such long - forgotten stories are eagerly awaited and ... religions . " Since then what he called its " hybrid spirit " has been severely battered by two world wars and ...
... religious co - existence in the early twenty - first century such long - forgotten stories are eagerly awaited and ... religions . " Since then what he called its " hybrid spirit " has been severely battered by two world wars and ...
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... religion spread both by warriors dedicated to Holy War and through religious fraternities which took over Christian shrines , espousing a surprisingly open attitude to Christianity itself . They were in many ways heirs to central Asian ...
... religion spread both by warriors dedicated to Holy War and through religious fraternities which took over Christian shrines , espousing a surprisingly open attitude to Christianity itself . They were in many ways heirs to central Asian ...
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... religion came as a pleasant relief to many Orthodox Christians . Held captive by the Ottomans in 1355 , the dis- tinguished archbishop of Salonica , Gregory Palamas , was surprised to find the Orthodox Church recognized and even ...
... religion came as a pleasant relief to many Orthodox Christians . Held captive by the Ottomans in 1355 , the dis- tinguished archbishop of Salonica , Gregory Palamas , was surprised to find the Orthodox Church recognized and even ...
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... religious piety and administrative control , cities were essential for the prosperity of the Ottoman lands . Yet as the sultans knew , it is one thing to conquer a city , another to restore it to life . In 1453 , Mehmed the Conqueror ...
... religious piety and administrative control , cities were essential for the prosperity of the Ottoman lands . Yet as the sultans knew , it is one thing to conquer a city , another to restore it to life . In 1453 , Mehmed the Conqueror ...
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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