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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... become one of the most successful of Europe's Orientalists with his novels of decadent sensibility and exotic seduction . Many others , of course , had mined the same vein : the literature of Oriental fantasy erotica stretched back well ...
... become one of the most successful of Europe's Orientalists with his novels of decadent sensibility and exotic seduction . Many others , of course , had mined the same vein : the literature of Oriental fantasy erotica stretched back well ...
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... become Keeper of the Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum , had his hands full with excavations in Anatolia ; it does not appear that more than a half - hearted effort was ever made to bring them to Britain . But others too ...
... become Keeper of the Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum , had his hands full with excavations in Anatolia ; it does not appear that more than a half - hearted effort was ever made to bring them to Britain . But others too ...
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... become stinking rich , " commented a survivor in a satirical Jewish sketch . " All the Jews have become filthy rich , it said . I am a Jew - what I went through in Hitler's camps proves it — so I must be filthy rich too . ' 9922 The ...
... become stinking rich , " commented a survivor in a satirical Jewish sketch . " All the Jews have become filthy rich , it said . I am a Jew - what I went through in Hitler's camps proves it — so I must be filthy rich too . ' 9922 The ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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