Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950Salonica, 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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houses the offices of the pasha's Greek equivalent , and the car - parks , widened streets and open spaces which detach it from its surroundings signal its authority . But at the time of Abdul Mecid's visit , the pasha's konak was ...
houses the offices of the pasha's Greek equivalent , and the car - parks , widened streets and open spaces which detach it from its surroundings signal its authority . But at the time of Abdul Mecid's visit , the pasha's konak was ...
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Husni Pasha headed off a riot by promptly announcing lower prices for flour , while Akif Pasha won praise for his " timely and vigorous measures " to check an outbreak of cholera . During a fire in 1840 , Omer Pasha " was immediately on ...
Husni Pasha headed off a riot by promptly announcing lower prices for flour , while Akif Pasha won praise for his " timely and vigorous measures " to check an outbreak of cholera . During a fire in 1840 , Omer Pasha " was immediately on ...
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In 1738 , as we saw in the last chapter , the Jewish sarraf ( private banker ) , Jacob Kapon , the pasha's moneylender and chief treasurer , was a man powerful enough to get the rabbis to issue excommunications against his rivals and ...
In 1738 , as we saw in the last chapter , the Jewish sarraf ( private banker ) , Jacob Kapon , the pasha's moneylender and chief treasurer , was a man powerful enough to get the rabbis to issue excommunications against his rivals and ...
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Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950 |
| Author | Mark Mazower |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Vintage, 2006 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 19 Nov 2008 |
| ISBN | 0375727388, 9780375727382 |
| Length | 490 pages |
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