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 59
... synagogue , and Jews argued bitterly among themselves as to what constituted right practice . Fifteenth - century ... Synagogues multiplied — a fundamental princi- ple of Jewish life was that everyone had to belong to one congregation or ...
... synagogue , and Jews argued bitterly among themselves as to what constituted right practice . Fifteenth - century ... Synagogues multiplied — a fundamental princi- ple of Jewish life was that everyone had to belong to one congregation or ...
Page 228
... synagogue was known as " Russia " or " Moscow , " Poulia as Macar- ron , from its members ' supposed fondness for pasta ; the salt - farmers ' synagogue , Shalom , was called Gamello , after the camels who carried the salt ( but also ...
... synagogue was known as " Russia " or " Moscow , " Poulia as Macar- ron , from its members ' supposed fondness for pasta ; the salt - farmers ' synagogue , Shalom , was called Gamello , after the camels who carried the salt ( but also ...
Page 387
... synagogue services , the closures were a matter of individual conscience and should not be blocked . In the event , they went even further than that and actually enforced the shop closures in one or two cases where Jewish proprietors ...
... synagogue services , the closures were a matter of individual conscience and should not be blocked . In the event , they went even further than that and actually enforced the shop closures in one or two cases where Jewish proprietors ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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