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 69
... looked forward to the Jews ' conversion , Jews themselves to their imminent return to Zion . Rumours ran across Europe , and it was reported " that a Ship was arrived in the Northern parts of Scotland with her Sails and Cordage of Silk ...
... looked forward to the Jews ' conversion , Jews themselves to their imminent return to Zion . Rumours ran across Europe , and it was reported " that a Ship was arrived in the Northern parts of Scotland with her Sails and Cordage of Silk ...
Page 70
... looked on in bemusement and scorn . When a French onlooker smiled at the wild abandon of the crowds , a young Jewish boy told him “ that I had noth- ing to smile about since shortly we would all become their slaves by the virtue of ...
... looked on in bemusement and scorn . When a French onlooker smiled at the wild abandon of the crowds , a young Jewish boy told him “ that I had noth- ing to smile about since shortly we would all become their slaves by the virtue of ...
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... looked on helplessly . Some cried . " 41 " By the station , my path was interrupted by a river of Jews coming down from the camp to the train , " recollected Eleftheria Drosakis , then a young girl from a refugee family . Living near ...
... looked on helplessly . Some cried . " 41 " By the station , my path was interrupted by a river of Jews coming down from the camp to the train , " recollected Eleftheria Drosakis , then a young girl from a refugee family . Living near ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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