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
... organized themselves in Salonica either . Under the Byzantine emperors , there was apparently a Jewish " provost . " No such post was established by the Ottomans . The community could not fix upon a single chief rabbi , and its early ...
... organized themselves in Salonica either . Under the Byzantine emperors , there was apparently a Jewish " provost . " No such post was established by the Ottomans . The community could not fix upon a single chief rabbi , and its early ...
Page 185
... organized , or what came to the same thing , to find someone to do it for me , " wrote Auguste Choisy in August 1875. Nikolaos Hadji - Thomas was , in the words of his satisfied customer , " the model dragoman : a well - built man of ...
... organized , or what came to the same thing , to find someone to do it for me , " wrote Auguste Choisy in August 1875. Nikolaos Hadji - Thomas was , in the words of his satisfied customer , " the model dragoman : a well - built man of ...
Page 350
... organized tobacco workers were the main source of labour militancy in the city . The Tobacco workers Federation of Greece fought hard over pay , working conditions , unemployment benefits and the regulation of exports and in 1919 they ...
... organized tobacco workers were the main source of labour militancy in the city . The Tobacco workers Federation of Greece fought hard over pay , working conditions , unemployment benefits and the regulation of exports and in 1919 they ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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