Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006 M05 9 - 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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Page 313
... first voluntary , then forced - depleted the place of Muslims ; the cemetery was desecrated , its walls were torn down , the tombstones and urns sold off for building materials . When the bones of distinguished former sheykhs were ...
... first voluntary , then forced - depleted the place of Muslims ; the cemetery was desecrated , its walls were torn down , the tombstones and urns sold off for building materials . When the bones of distinguished former sheykhs were ...
Page 356
... first since the restoration of the monarchy - had shown how deeply the country was split . The antago- nism between Venizelists and anti - Venizelists which had emerged dur- ing the First World War lingered on , a matter of loyalty ...
... first since the restoration of the monarchy - had shown how deeply the country was split . The antago- nism between Venizelists and anti - Venizelists which had emerged dur- ing the First World War lingered on , a matter of loyalty ...
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... first - hand news of the fate of the tens of thousands who had been deported to Poland did not come until March 1945 with the appearance of the first survivors from Auschwitz.9 The first to arrive was an Athenian Jew called Leon Batis ...
... first - hand news of the fate of the tens of thousands who had been deported to Poland did not come until March 1945 with the appearance of the first survivors from Auschwitz.9 The first to arrive was an Athenian Jew called Leon Batis ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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