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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... rabbis , lead- ing unfortunate girls astray ; conversions - especially of slaves - to Judaism were perfunctory ; moreover , any rabbi was free to issue ordi- nances and excommunications , and some on occasions evidently abused these ...
... rabbis , lead- ing unfortunate girls astray ; conversions - especially of slaves - to Judaism were perfunctory ; moreover , any rabbi was free to issue ordi- nances and excommunications , and some on occasions evidently abused these ...
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... rabbi of the city was recognized officially only in 1836. The reli- gious , legal and administrative head of the community , he was responsi- ble for the collection and allocation of taxes , the interpretation of laws , and the ...
... rabbi of the city was recognized officially only in 1836. The reli- gious , legal and administrative head of the community , he was responsi- ble for the collection and allocation of taxes , the interpretation of laws , and the ...
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... rabbis in the past . But the chief rabbi profited from the centralization of communal power , the waning of Greek influence after 1821 and the growing grip of the Jews on the city's economy . " The Bankers , Cashiers , Buyers and ...
... rabbis in the past . But the chief rabbi profited from the centralization of communal power , the waning of Greek influence after 1821 and the growing grip of the Jews on the city's economy . " The Bankers , Cashiers , Buyers and ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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