Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950Alfred A. Knopf, 2005 - 490 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 22
... Christianity had triumphed on its own terms and turned itself into a new religion : the Rotonda had been converted from pagan use , and chapels , shrines and Christian graveyards were spread- ing with astonishing speed across the city ...
... Christianity had triumphed on its own terms and turned itself into a new religion : the Rotonda had been converted from pagan use , and chapels , shrines and Christian graveyards were spread- ing with astonishing speed across the city ...
Page 65
... Christian shrines for Muslim use could be seen not as deliberate humiliation and desecration - though it was naturally seen that way by Christians — but as a recognition by Muslims that God lingered already in the holy places of their ...
... Christian shrines for Muslim use could be seen not as deliberate humiliation and desecration - though it was naturally seen that way by Christians — but as a recognition by Muslims that God lingered already in the holy places of their ...
Page 408
... Christian relative . An unknown number of children were adopted - five of these were returned by the city orphanage in 1947 - despite stringent German prohibitions against doing this . All those left faced a terrifying under- ground ...
... Christian relative . An unknown number of children were adopted - five of these were returned by the city orphanage in 1947 - despite stringent German prohibitions against doing this . All those left faced a terrifying under- ground ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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