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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... capital , in Vidin , and along the Danube . Much of the wealth of the Nasi - Mendes family - the most politically successful and prominent Jewish dynasty of the sixteenth century - was invested in concessions of this kind.18 Capital ...
... capital , in Vidin , and along the Danube . Much of the wealth of the Nasi - Mendes family - the most politically successful and prominent Jewish dynasty of the sixteenth century - was invested in concessions of this kind.18 Capital ...
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... capital a year later . This was partly because the Jews of the Macedonian capital were far more numerous , more obtrusive and less assimilated than in Athens ; helping a few thousand mostly Greek - speaking Jews in a city of nearly half ...
... capital a year later . This was partly because the Jews of the Macedonian capital were far more numerous , more obtrusive and less assimilated than in Athens ; helping a few thousand mostly Greek - speaking Jews in a city of nearly half ...
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... Capital of Europe and European funds were pouring in for the restoration of its antiquities . The ministry of culture planned to use the Rotonda for concerts and exhibitions , and so at the end of 1994 it per- mitted the church to ...
... Capital of Europe and European funds were pouring in for the restoration of its antiquities . The ministry of culture planned to use the Rotonda for concerts and exhibitions , and so at the end of 1994 it per- mitted the church to ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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