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 380
... Jewish Assimilationists whose goal was “ to create and develop amongst Salonica Jews feelings utterly identical with those of their fellow - citizens irrespective of religious persuasion , without how- ever distancing themselves from the ...
... Jewish Assimilationists whose goal was “ to create and develop amongst Salonica Jews feelings utterly identical with those of their fellow - citizens irrespective of religious persuasion , without how- ever distancing themselves from the ...
Page 384
... Jews of responsibility for Bolshevik crimes as well as for the Asia Minor dis- aster . In 1923 , the Central Union of Anti - Jewish Youth was established in the city , and joined later by groups like the rightward - leaning All ...
... Jews of responsibility for Bolshevik crimes as well as for the Asia Minor dis- aster . In 1923 , the Central Union of Anti - Jewish Youth was established in the city , and joined later by groups like the rightward - leaning All ...
Page 389
... Jewish 151 quarter , for instance , Avramatchi , the Jewish grocer , sold his kezo blanko ( white cheese ) to Greek and Jewish housewives alike . The very language of shopping combined Turkish words which everyone still used — bakkal ...
... Jewish 151 quarter , for instance , Avramatchi , the Jewish grocer , sold his kezo blanko ( white cheese ) to Greek and Jewish housewives alike . The very language of shopping combined Turkish words which everyone still used — bakkal ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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