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 187
... women greeted the approach of unknown men . Doctors were in fact about the only kind of male strangers who might on occasion get closer . Jewish women were similarly secluded , especially during the violent eighteenth century : many ...
... women greeted the approach of unknown men . Doctors were in fact about the only kind of male strangers who might on occasion get closer . Jewish women were similarly secluded , especially during the violent eighteenth century : many ...
Page 363
... women , especially younger women , found themselves chal- lenging older ideas of what was proper . " If only someone would help me escape from this modernizmo de mujer [ modernism of woman ] , " complains the elderly Uncle Bohor , in a ...
... women , especially younger women , found themselves chal- lenging older ideas of what was proper . " If only someone would help me escape from this modernizmo de mujer [ modernism of woman ] , " complains the elderly Uncle Bohor , in a ...
Page 367
... women of all kinds of suspect morals . " By the mid - 1950s , more than one hundred " dishonourable women " were still in the business . It was a far cry from the one thou- sand sex workers of the First World War ; but now all the women ...
... women of all kinds of suspect morals . " By the mid - 1950s , more than one hundred " dishonourable women " were still in the business . It was a far cry from the one thou- sand sex workers of the First World War ; but now all the women ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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