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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Page 43
A total of just over ten thousand people lived there so the population had barely recovered to the level it was at when the Ottoman army burst in - roughly divided between Chris- tians and Muslims , with the former still very slightly ...
A total of just over ten thousand people lived there so the population had barely recovered to the level it was at when the Ottoman army burst in - roughly divided between Chris- tians and Muslims , with the former still very slightly ...
Page 62
Nor did the rabbis , left to their own devices as they mostly were , ignore the fact that they lived in a state run on the basis of the shari'a : Jews might be represented by Muslims professionally if they lived in certain ...
Nor did the rabbis , left to their own devices as they mostly were , ignore the fact that they lived in a state run on the basis of the shari'a : Jews might be represented by Muslims professionally if they lived in certain ...
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Because the burnt - out central zone was off - limits , and subject to the slow pace of the urban planners , refugees headed towards the Upper Town , where the city's Muslim population had mostly lived . They settled themselves in ...
Because the burnt - out central zone was off - limits , and subject to the slow pace of the urban planners , refugees headed towards the Upper Town , where the city's Muslim population had mostly lived . They settled themselves in ...
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Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 |
| Author | Mark Mazower |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 19 Nov 2008 |
| ISBN | 0375727388, 9780375727382 |
| Length | 544 pages |
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