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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... French and Venetian consuls tried to get imprisoned or enslaved pris- oners ... consul in 1792 , or the deserter who fled his master and made his way to ... consul in 1739. " I immediately sent a trustworthy man there to the kadi with a ...
... French and Venetian consuls tried to get imprisoned or enslaved pris- oners ... consul in 1792 , or the deserter who fled his master and made his way to ... consul in 1739. " I immediately sent a trustworthy man there to the kadi with a ...
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... consul was not about to lose their goodwill if he could help it . " In this port , " wrote one , " the trea- sury of the French nation would suffer a significant loss if the Jews , who do big business , were obliged to leave their ...
... consul was not about to lose their goodwill if he could help it . " In this port , " wrote one , " the trea- sury of the French nation would suffer a significant loss if the Jews , who do big business , were obliged to leave their ...
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... French captain : this was the kind of competition which frightened French ... consul was careful to send congratulations on the eve of the Jewish New Year ... French consul described them , the Greeks became an unrivalled force in ...
... French captain : this was the kind of competition which frightened French ... consul was careful to send congratulations on the eve of the Jewish New Year ... French consul described them , the Greeks became an unrivalled force in ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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