Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950Salonica, 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
The Great Fire | 7 |
Conquest 1430 I | 17 |
Travellers and the European Imagination | 175 |
IO The Possibilities of a Past | 192 |
The Macedonia Question 18781908 | 238 |
I4 The Return of Saint Dimitrios | 275 |
The First World War | 286 |
The Muslim Exodus | 311 |
Workers and the State | 347 |
Dressing for the Tango | 359 |
Greeks and Jews | 375 |
Genocide | 392 |
Aftermath | 412 |
The Memory of the Dead | 429 |
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Glossary | 469 |
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