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 192
... Past ALONE WITH ANTIQUITY IN 1916 A WRITER for the National Geographic was struck by Salonica's seeming indifference to the needs of the tourists who came on the trail of its past . " So little indeed has she yet taken in , as the ...
... Past ALONE WITH ANTIQUITY IN 1916 A WRITER for the National Geographic was struck by Salonica's seeming indifference to the needs of the tourists who came on the trail of its past . " So little indeed has she yet taken in , as the ...
Page 194
... past . David Urquhart recommended experiencing the East for " what I would call the novelty of antiquity . " Lost to ... past , not the present . " The Jews in particular cast her mind back centuries . " But it is the same with all the ...
... past . David Urquhart recommended experiencing the East for " what I would call the novelty of antiquity . " Lost to ... past , not the present . " The Jews in particular cast her mind back centuries . " But it is the same with all the ...
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... past . 9930 begging : " Perhaps it is time to deal with the problem of begging which has become a scourge in Salonica ... The municipality alone can give a favourable solution to this question . " 31 Other , perhaps more sensitive ...
... past . 9930 begging : " Perhaps it is time to deal with the problem of begging which has become a scourge in Salonica ... The municipality alone can give a favourable solution to this question . " 31 Other , perhaps more sensitive ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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