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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... street fountain in the Upper Town Sabbatai Zevi , 1666 Sabbatians performing penitential exercises Ma'min boy in the robes of a Mevlevi oblate in the late nineteenth century The Yeni Djami The courtyard of the Mevlevi tekke , c.1917 ...
... street fountain in the Upper Town Sabbatai Zevi , 1666 Sabbatians performing penitential exercises Ma'min boy in the robes of a Mevlevi oblate in the late nineteenth century The Yeni Djami The courtyard of the Mevlevi tekke , c.1917 ...
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... streets; the tnaiority, once grand, had been badly neglected: their gabled roofs had caved in, their shuttered bedrooms lay open to public view, and one caught spectacular glimpses of the city below through yawning gaps in their ...
... streets; the tnaiority, once grand, had been badly neglected: their gabled roofs had caved in, their shuttered bedrooms lay open to public view, and one caught spectacular glimpses of the city below through yawning gaps in their ...
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... streets ; the majority , once grand , had been badly neglected : their gabled roofs had caved in , their shuttered bedrooms lay open to public view , and one caught spectacular glimpses of the city below through yawning gaps in their ...
... streets ; the majority , once grand , had been badly neglected : their gabled roofs had caved in , their shuttered bedrooms lay open to public view , and one caught spectacular glimpses of the city below through yawning gaps in their ...
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... streets - still bearing the old names , Afrodite , Bacchus - which now house nothing more excit- ing than car rental agencies , garages and tyre - repair shops . But ridding the city of its brothels is one thing and eradicating the ...
... streets - still bearing the old names , Afrodite , Bacchus - which now house nothing more excit- ing than car rental agencies , garages and tyre - repair shops . But ridding the city of its brothels is one thing and eradicating the ...
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... streets in a very different mood . Flags prolifer- ated in shop - windows , and car stickers and airport banners proclaimed that " Macedonia has been , and will always be , Greek . " Greeks and Slavs did battle over the legacy of the ...
... streets in a very different mood . Flags prolifer- ated in shop - windows , and car stickers and airport banners proclaimed that " Macedonia has been , and will always be , Greek . " Greeks and Slavs did battle over the legacy of the ...
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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