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 154
... chief rabbi of the city was recognized officially only in 1836. The reli- gious , legal and administrative head of the community , he was responsi- ble for the collection and allocation of taxes , the interpretation of laws , and the ...
... chief rabbi of the city was recognized officially only in 1836. The reli- gious , legal and administrative head of the community , he was responsi- ble for the collection and allocation of taxes , the interpretation of laws , and the ...
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... chief rabbi , the recog- nized leaders of their communities . But at the same time , the freeing - up of trade , the consolidation of private property rights and the growth of the city's economy , especially after the Crimean War ...
... chief rabbi , the recog- nized leaders of their communities . But at the same time , the freeing - up of trade , the consolidation of private property rights and the growth of the city's economy , especially after the Crimean War ...
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... Chief Rabbi Koretz had been a different per- sonality , and obstructed 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 ...
... Chief Rabbi Koretz had been a different per- sonality , and obstructed 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 ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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