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 187
... women greeted the approach of unknown men . Doctors were in fact about the only kind of male strangers who might on occasion get closer . Jewish women were similarly secluded , especially during the violent eighteenth century : many ...
... women greeted the approach of unknown men . Doctors were in fact about the only kind of male strangers who might on occasion get closer . Jewish women were similarly secluded , especially during the violent eighteenth century : many ...
Page 366
... women from the city itself , the clients Scottish , French and Senegalese soldiers . But even in such establishments women were vulnerable . " The day before yesterday , " wrote one journalist , one of those women found herself in the ...
... women from the city itself , the clients Scottish , French and Senegalese soldiers . But even in such establishments women were vulnerable . " The day before yesterday , " wrote one journalist , one of those women found herself in the ...
Page 367
... women of all kinds of suspect morals . " By the mid - 1950s , more than one hundred " dishonourable women " were still in the business . It was a far cry from the one thou- sand sex workers of the First World War ; but now all the women ...
... women of all kinds of suspect morals . " By the mid - 1950s , more than one hundred " dishonourable women " were still in the business . It was a far cry from the one thou- sand sex workers of the First World War ; but now all the women ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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