Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006 M05 9 - 544 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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Contents

Conquest 1430
17
Mosques and Hamams
32
The Arrival of the Sefardim
46
Messiahs Martyrs and Miracles
64
Janissaries and Other Plagues
94
Commerce and the Greeks
114
Pashas Beys and Moneylenders
133
Religion in the Age of Reform
150
The Return of Saint Dimitrios
275
The First World War
286
The Great Fire
298
The Muslim Exodus
311
City of Refugees
333
Workers and the State
347
Dressing for the Tango
359
Greeks and Jews
375

Travellers and the European Imagination
175
IO The Possibilities of a Past
192
In the Frankish Style
209
The Macedonia Question 18781908
238
The Young Turk Revolution
255
Genocide
392
Aftermath
412
The Memory of the Dead
429
Glossary
469
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Mark Mazower is professor of history at Columbia University and Birkbeck College, London. He is the author of Inside Hitler’s Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941–44, winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History and the Longman/History Today Award for Book of the Year. He lives in New York City.

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