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 58
... authorities apparently not bother with a centralized imperial Jewish hierarchy based in the capital , they scarcely bothered to formalize how the Jews organized themselves in Salonica either . Under the Byzantine emperors , there was ...
... authorities apparently not bother with a centralized imperial Jewish hierarchy based in the capital , they scarcely bothered to formalize how the Jews organized themselves in Salonica either . Under the Byzantine emperors , there was ...
Page 397
... authorities themselves might find the plight of the Jews impossible to resist . The Jewish cemetery , which occupied a very large area outside the eastern walls , had been the object of controversy between the community and the ...
... authorities themselves might find the plight of the Jews impossible to resist . The Jewish cemetery , which occupied a very large area outside the eastern walls , had been the object of controversy between the community and the ...
Page 420
... authorities for not doing more both to help the needy , and to clamp down on such incidents - of which this was evidently not the first . The 1157 " Poles " formed their own party for the communal elec- tions early in 1946 and thanks to ...
... authorities for not doing more both to help the needy , and to clamp down on such incidents - of which this was evidently not the first . The 1157 " Poles " formed their own party for the communal elec- tions early in 1946 and thanks to ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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