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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... town ( By permission of the Topkapi Palace Museum ) Portrait of 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 ...
... town ( By permission of the Topkapi Palace Museum ) Portrait of 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 ...
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... Town in the early twentieth cen- tury The Aladja Imaret An Ottoman tribunal in session Women collecting water from a street fountain in the Upper Town Sabbatai Zevi , 1666 Sabbatians performing penitential exercises Ma'min boy in the ...
... Town in the early twentieth cen- tury The Aladja Imaret An Ottoman tribunal in session Women collecting water from a street fountain in the Upper Town Sabbatai Zevi , 1666 Sabbatians performing penitential exercises Ma'min boy in the ...
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... town centre following the 1917 fire ( Imperial War Museum ) First meeting of the town planners , 1917 Ernest Hebrard leads a dig in the precinct of the Rotonda ( Courtesy of Mr. H. Yiakoumis and Editions Potamos ) The new city Huts of ...
... town centre following the 1917 fire ( Imperial War Museum ) First meeting of the town planners , 1917 Ernest Hebrard leads a dig in the precinct of the Rotonda ( Courtesy of Mr. H. Yiakoumis and Editions Potamos ) The new city Huts of ...
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... Town. There, hidden inside the perimeter of the old walls, was -.1 warren of precipitous alle_Wrays sometimes ending abruptly, at others opening onto squares shaded by plane trees and cooled by fountains. ()ne had the sense ofentering ...
... Town. There, hidden inside the perimeter of the old walls, was -.1 warren of precipitous alle_Wrays sometimes ending abruptly, at others opening onto squares shaded by plane trees and cooled by fountains. ()ne had the sense ofentering ...
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... town . Down a petrol - choked road , I passed a string of seedy hotels , and arrived at a busy crossroads : beyond ... towns and villages of Thrace and the bor- der with Turkey . From the moment I crossed the hectic confusion of Vardar ...
... town . Down a petrol - choked road , I passed a string of seedy hotels , and arrived at a busy crossroads : beyond ... towns and villages of Thrace and the bor- der with Turkey . From the moment I crossed the hectic confusion of Vardar ...
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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