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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... Workers and the State 20 Dressing for the Tango 21 Greeks and Jews 22 Genocide 23 Aftermath 298 311 333 347 359 375 392 412 Conclusion : The Memory of the Dead Notes Glossary Index 429 441 469 473 Acknowledgements IN THE TWENTY YEARS I ...
... Workers and the State 20 Dressing for the Tango 21 Greeks and Jews 22 Genocide 23 Aftermath 298 311 333 347 359 375 392 412 Conclusion : The Memory of the Dead Notes Glossary Index 429 441 469 473 Acknowledgements IN THE TWENTY YEARS I ...
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... workers. Today the only traces of their predominance that survive are some n-.nnes—Kapon, Perahia, Benmayor, Modiano_on faded shopfronts, Hebrew-lettered tombstones piled up in churchyards, an old people's home and the community offices ...
... workers. Today the only traces of their predominance that survive are some n-.nnes—Kapon, Perahia, Benmayor, Modiano_on faded shopfronts, Hebrew-lettered tombstones piled up in churchyards, an old people's home and the community offices ...
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... workers . Today the only traces of their predominance that survive are some names Kapon , Perahia , Benmayor , Modiano - on faded shopfronts , Hebrew - lettered tombstones piled up in churchyards , an old people's home and the community ...
... workers . Today the only traces of their predominance that survive are some names Kapon , Perahia , Benmayor , Modiano - on faded shopfronts , Hebrew - lettered tombstones piled up in churchyards , an old people's home and the community ...
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... workers in particular - together with the donkey and camel - drivers , tailors , bakers , grocers , fishermen , cobblers and shopkeepers without which no urban life could be sustained . The city was now producing its own rice , soap ...
... workers in particular - together with the donkey and camel - drivers , tailors , bakers , grocers , fishermen , cobblers and shopkeepers without which no urban life could be sustained . The city was now producing its own rice , soap ...
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... workers and silversmiths - like the smell of the bakeries but worse , according to one sufferer . Living on top of one another , neighbours suffered when one new tenant decided to turn his bedroom into a kitchen , projecting effluent ...
... workers and silversmiths - like the smell of the bakeries but worse , according to one sufferer . Living on top of one another , neighbours suffered when one new tenant decided to turn his bedroom into a kitchen , projecting effluent ...
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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