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 84
... formed a very large part of the local Chris- tian population . Some of them , finding themselves adrift and vulnera- ble to the dangers facing those far from home , converted for the sake of greater security . Other converts were ...
... formed a very large part of the local Chris- tian population . Some of them , finding themselves adrift and vulnera- ble to the dangers facing those far from home , converted for the sake of greater security . Other converts were ...
Page 158
... formed a tiny and accepted part of its complex con- fessional mosaic , but rather those American and British Protestants who were energetically penetrating the eastern Mediterranean from the early 1800s on behalf of groups like the ...
... formed a tiny and accepted part of its complex con- fessional mosaic , but rather those American and British Protestants who were energetically penetrating the eastern Mediterranean from the early 1800s on behalf of groups like the ...
Page 351
... formed units against the " Bolsheviks ” and “ anarchists " at home . The workers themselves meanwhile were moving rapidly to the left ; in Salonica the Workers ' Centre became the focus of socialist life . With a claimed twelve thousand ...
... formed units against the " Bolsheviks ” and “ anarchists " at home . The workers themselves meanwhile were moving rapidly to the left ; in Salonica the Workers ' Centre became the focus of socialist life . With a claimed twelve thousand ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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