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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... houses . Smell of rotten wood . " In the centre of the town , the throng of humans and packs of dogs worried such an ... house to stuff morsels in your mouth with his own hand ? There were chibouks and hookahs to master , endless pilaffs ...
... houses . Smell of rotten wood . " In the centre of the town , the throng of humans and packs of dogs worried such an ... house to stuff morsels in your mouth with his own hand ? There were chibouks and hookahs to master , endless pilaffs ...
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... house was burnt , however , they made their way in silence out of the district . " 1 “ It was an amazing and sad scene , " wrote Collinson Owen , “ the wailing families , the crash of falling houses as the flames tore along , 1 Burned ...
... house was burnt , however , they made their way in silence out of the district . " 1 “ It was an amazing and sad scene , " wrote Collinson Owen , “ the wailing families , the crash of falling houses as the flames tore along , 1 Burned ...
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... houses , their façades faded in washes of pink , pale blue and ochre , preserved by their inhabitants ' poverty , still commanded the curving lanes of the Upper Town in the late 1970s . Today few are left ; most have been torn down and ...
... houses , their façades faded in washes of pink , pale blue and ochre , preserved by their inhabitants ' poverty , still commanded the curving lanes of the Upper Town in the late 1970s . Today few are left ; most have been torn down and ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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