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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... tion is to express the historical meaning of Salonica down the genera- tions , authenticating his story with a multitude of contemporary quotations , from the fifteenth to the twentieth century , and scrupu- lously explaining it all out ...
... tion is to express the historical meaning of Salonica down the genera- tions , authenticating his story with a multitude of contemporary quotations , from the fifteenth to the twentieth century , and scrupu- lously explaining it all out ...
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... tion they generously gave me . Nikos Stavroulakis gave me precious guidance on the complexities of Marrano and Maʼmin identities , not to mention food . My parents , Bill and Miriam Mazower , and my grand- mother , Ruth Shaffer , read ...
... tion they generously gave me . Nikos Stavroulakis gave me precious guidance on the complexities of Marrano and Maʼmin identities , not to mention food . My parents , Bill and Miriam Mazower , and my grand- mother , Ruth Shaffer , read ...
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... tion - unfounded , as it turned out - reflected the extent to which the Holocaust was dominating thinking about the Second World War . Sometimes it seemed from the way people talked and wrote as though nothing else of any significance ...
... tion - unfounded , as it turned out - reflected the extent to which the Holocaust was dominating thinking about the Second World War . Sometimes it seemed from the way people talked and wrote as though nothing else of any significance ...
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... tion of his work . " This Acropolis , " it runs , " was conquered and cap- tured by force , from the hands of infidels and Franks , with the help of God , by Sultan Murad , son of Sultan Mehmed , whose banner God does not cease to make ...
... tion of his work . " This Acropolis , " it runs , " was conquered and cap- tured by force , from the hands of infidels and Franks , with the help of God , by Sultan Murad , son of Sultan Mehmed , whose banner God does not cease to make ...
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... tion of urban life . The centre of gravity of Balkan Christianity shifted into the rural areas where monasteries , especially in Mount Athos , prospered . The cities were more deeply altered . With the newcomers came their faith , their ...
... tion of urban life . The centre of gravity of Balkan Christianity shifted into the rural areas where monasteries , especially in Mount Athos , prospered . The cities were more deeply altered . With the newcomers came their faith , their ...
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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