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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In fact , the stakes for the empire itself could not have been higher . As he wrote to Paris : 20 All men of sound sense here hope that the Capudan Pasha follows the example of Topal Osman Pasha who ... covered Albania in rivers of ...
In fact , the stakes for the empire itself could not have been higher . As he wrote to Paris : 20 All men of sound sense here hope that the Capudan Pasha follows the example of Topal Osman Pasha who ... covered Albania in rivers of ...
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... and the fact that most of the advisory council were related to him , meant that no one had been able to prevent his crimes.25 Memories of this " unprecedented plunder " must have still been alive six years later when Sultan Abdul ...
... and the fact that most of the advisory council were related to him , meant that no one had been able to prevent his crimes.25 Memories of this " unprecedented plunder " must have still been alive six years later when Sultan Abdul ...
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In fact , some of the poorest Jews in the city may well have been better off as a result of the forced relocation . Noting that 2700 poor Jewish families had been rehoused by February 1920 , a report from a committee representing their ...
In fact , some of the poorest Jews in the city may well have been better off as a result of the forced relocation . Noting that 2700 poor Jewish families had been rehoused by February 1920 , a report from a committee representing their ...
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Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| 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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