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 108
... quarter during Carnival , while parties at the house of the Greek metropolitan apparently went on for days at a time , with chicken , salted olives and lemon jam washed down with copious quanti- ties of vodka , wine and coffee . Orlyk ...
... quarter during Carnival , while parties at the house of the Greek metropolitan apparently went on for days at a time , with chicken , salted olives and lemon jam washed down with copious quanti- ties of vodka , wine and coffee . Orlyk ...
Page 228
... Quarter of the Three Eggs " -named after a decorated marble slab on the façade of an old house— “ At the Fire " ( after an especially bad one ) and “ Defter- dar , " because a treasurer of the province had once lived there . Other ...
... Quarter of the Three Eggs " -named after a decorated marble slab on the façade of an old house— “ At the Fire " ( after an especially bad one ) and “ Defter- dar , " because a treasurer of the province had once lived there . Other ...
Page 412
... quarter recently vacated by the Jews . " My man explained the merit of the Ghetto to me . The Germans had recently ... quarters . In a matter of weeks nearly one - fifth of the population of a large city had been deported , leaving their ...
... quarter recently vacated by the Jews . " My man explained the merit of the Ghetto to me . The Germans had recently ... quarters . In a matter of weeks nearly one - fifth of the population of a large city had been deported , leaving their ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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