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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... French books in the old Talmud Torah in the 1840s . When they got nowhere , they obtained a firman to found their own pilot school , run by a Ger- man rabbi whom the local rabbis regarded as an impious foreigner . But the real ...
... French books in the old Talmud Torah in the 1840s . When they got nowhere , they obtained a firman to found their own pilot school , run by a Ger- man rabbi whom the local rabbis regarded as an impious foreigner . But the real ...
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... French troops . Barely two months later , things got even worse : in the winter of 1915 the Serb army was pushed back over the snow - bound mountains of Montenegro to the Adriatic sea , Serbia was occupied by the Central Powers and the ...
... French troops . Barely two months later , things got even worse : in the winter of 1915 the Serb army was pushed back over the snow - bound mountains of Montenegro to the Adriatic sea , Serbia was occupied by the Central Powers and the ...
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... French , Russians and Cossacks , Italians , British , Serbian , French colonials , Senegalese , Zouaves , and men from Madagascar - Indians , Annanese , Albanians , Macedonians and Greeks " in a kaleidoscope of bemedalled uniforms.11 ...
... French , Russians and Cossacks , Italians , British , Serbian , French colonials , Senegalese , Zouaves , and men from Madagascar - Indians , Annanese , Albanians , Macedonians and Greeks " in a kaleidoscope of bemedalled uniforms.11 ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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