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 70
... looked on in bemusement and scorn . When a French onlooker smiled at the wild abandon of the crowds , a young Jewish boy told him " that I had noth- ing to smile about since shortly we would all become their slaves by the virtue of ...
... looked on in bemusement and scorn . When a French onlooker smiled at the wild abandon of the crowds , a young Jewish boy told him " that I had noth- ing to smile about since shortly we would all become their slaves by the virtue of ...
Page 183
... looked jerry - built on closer inspection . " Aspect of streets like those of Five Points , " noted Melville , alluding to a notori- ous slum back home . " Rotten houses . Smell of rotten wood . " In the centre of the town , the throng ...
... looked jerry - built on closer inspection . " Aspect of streets like those of Five Points , " noted Melville , alluding to a notori- ous slum back home . " Rotten houses . Smell of rotten wood . " In the centre of the town , the throng ...
Page 341
... looked at first sight there- fore like bureaucratic confusion and incompetence possessed a logic of its own : it helped the state , with relatively little outlay of its own , to set- tle its priority group , the Greek refugees , as 341 ...
... looked at first sight there- fore like bureaucratic confusion and incompetence possessed a logic of its own : it helped the state , with relatively little outlay of its own , to set- tle its priority group , the Greek refugees , as 341 ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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