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 138
... fire without giving one single para to urge the people to exert them- selves . Most of the fire engines were taken away from the fire to be ready to protect the Konak of the Pasha and the Greek Arch- bishop's palace , the consequence ...
... fire without giving one single para to urge the people to exert them- selves . Most of the fire engines were taken away from the fire to be ready to protect the Konak of the Pasha and the Greek Arch- bishop's palace , the consequence ...
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... fire . Streams of red wine flowed into the gutters from bursting barrels of French army claret ; at Floca's café , directly in the line of the inferno , perspiring officers were invited by the owner to help themselves to whatever they ...
... fire . Streams of red wine flowed into the gutters from bursting barrels of French army claret ; at Floca's café , directly in the line of the inferno , perspiring officers were invited by the owner to help themselves to whatever they ...
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... fire , wrote a British soldier , " Salonica was a city of the dead . Its streets were deserted , its cafés and ... fire . " Forty years and three major fires later , an Ameri- can scholar , hoping to add to his collection of Judaica ...
... fire , wrote a British soldier , " Salonica was a city of the dead . Its streets were deserted , its cafés and ... fire . " Forty years and three major fires later , an Ameri- can scholar , hoping to add to his collection of Judaica ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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