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 79
... close connection with the worship of Christ . Their use of bread and wine in their rituals , their stress on the twelve Imams ( akin to the twelve apostles ) , and many other features of their rites all bore a close resemblance to ...
... close connection with the worship of Christ . Their use of bread and wine in their rituals , their stress on the twelve Imams ( akin to the twelve apostles ) , and many other features of their rites all bore a close resemblance to ...
Page 109
... close to the mid - century population of the city itself . Only the constant inflow of new , mostly Christian , migrants from the countryside and high , mostly Jewish , local birth rates can account for the lack of a very steep decline ...
... close to the mid - century population of the city itself . Only the constant inflow of new , mostly Christian , migrants from the countryside and high , mostly Jewish , local birth rates can account for the lack of a very steep decline ...
Page 368
... close relations between Salonica's head of police and the underworld . He had come north to play because his haunts in Piraeus and Athens were being closed down . His first night in town was spent with a prostitute , but early the next ...
... close relations between Salonica's head of police and the underworld . He had come north to play because his haunts in Piraeus and Athens were being closed down . His first night in town was spent with a prostitute , but early the next ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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