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 404
... German soldiers : one advised Alberto Saoul to " go to Athens where the air is better . " Another German told a Jewish acquaintance of his Chris- tian girlfriend : " Why don't you flee ? " A third hinted to a Jewish photo- graphic goods ...
... German soldiers : one advised Alberto Saoul to " go to Athens where the air is better . " Another German told a Jewish acquaintance of his Chris- tian girlfriend : " Why don't you flee ? " A third hinted to a Jewish photo- graphic goods ...
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... German stories that they were going to be resettled elsewhere , but also added to the sense of foreboding . The Muslim emigration , after all , had extended over more than a year following the population exchange agreement ; but the Germans ...
... German stories that they were going to be resettled elsewhere , but also added to the sense of foreboding . The Muslim emigration , after all , had extended over more than a year following the population exchange agreement ; but the Germans ...
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... German wishes — as the Chief Rabbi of Athens did : by 1944 the resistance was fully operational and better able to help than it had been the previous year . But a crucial part was also played by the different priorities and sentiments ...
... German wishes — as the Chief Rabbi of Athens did : by 1944 the resistance was fully operational and better able to help than it had been the previous year . But a crucial part was also played by the different priorities and sentiments ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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