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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... Sultan Murad II ( By permission of the Topkapi Palace Museum ) A Jewish merchant and doctor in Ottoman dress , Istanbul , 1574 ( Gen- nadius Library , American School of Classical Studies at Athens ) Visitors arrive at the home of a ...
... Sultan Murad II ( By permission of the Topkapi Palace Museum ) A Jewish merchant and doctor in Ottoman dress , Istanbul , 1574 ( Gen- nadius Library , American School of Classical Studies at Athens ) Visitors arrive at the home of a ...
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... Sultan Abdul Hamid had been kept when he was deposed by the Young Turks and exiled to the city in 1909. Along the same road was the Villa Bianca , an opulently outsize Swiss chalet , home of the wealthy Diaz- Fernandes family . On the ...
... Sultan Abdul Hamid had been kept when he was deposed by the Young Turks and exiled to the city in 1909. Along the same road was the Villa Bianca , an opulently outsize Swiss chalet , home of the wealthy Diaz- Fernandes family . On the ...
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... Sultan Murad II — was a catastrophe for the Christians but a triumph for the Turks . Nearly five centuries later , the Greek victory in 1912 reversed the equation . The Jews , having settled there at the invitation of the Ottoman sultans ...
... Sultan Murad II — was a catastrophe for the Christians but a triumph for the Turks . Nearly five centuries later , the Greek victory in 1912 reversed the equation . The Jews , having settled there at the invitation of the Ottoman sultans ...
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... Sultan Murad II in 1430 , delineate its daily life under his successors , and trace its passage from the multi- confessional , extraordinarily polyglot Ottoman world - as late as the First World War , Salonican boot - blacks commanded a ...
... Sultan Murad II in 1430 , delineate its daily life under his successors , and trace its passage from the multi- confessional , extraordinarily polyglot Ottoman world - as late as the First World War , Salonican boot - blacks commanded a ...
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... , for the city's position within the modern nation - state is unquestioned : the story of its passage from Ottoman to Greek hands has become ancient history . PART I The Rose of Sultan Murad I Conquest , 13 Introduction.
... , for the city's position within the modern nation - state is unquestioned : the story of its passage from Ottoman to Greek hands has become ancient history . PART I The Rose of Sultan Murad I Conquest , 13 Introduction.
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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