Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007 M12 18 - 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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... arrived . The cypresses , firs and rosebushes in their gardens were overgrown with ivy and creeping vines , their for- merly bright colours had faded into pastel shades of yellow , ochre and cream . Here were vestiges of a past that was ...
... arrived . The cypresses , firs and rosebushes in their gardens were overgrown with ivy and creeping vines , their for- merly bright colours had faded into pastel shades of yellow , ochre and cream . Here were vestiges of a past that was ...
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... arrival of the Iberian Jews after their expulsion from Spain , Salonica's emergence as a renowned centre of rabbinical learning , the disruption caused by the most famous False Messiah of the seventeenth century , Sabbetai Zevi , and ...
... arrival of the Iberian Jews after their expulsion from Spain , Salonica's emergence as a renowned centre of rabbinical learning , the disruption caused by the most famous False Messiah of the seventeenth century , Sabbetai Zevi , and ...
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... arrival injected new blood into the urban economy . But it was a major blow to the city's Christian identity and the Greek survivors were shocked . Salonica , wrote Anagnostes , " wore this ugliness like a mourning garment ... The hymns ...
... arrival injected new blood into the urban economy . But it was a major blow to the city's Christian identity and the Greek survivors were shocked . Salonica , wrote Anagnostes , " wore this ugliness like a mourning garment ... The hymns ...
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... arrived in droves . Some went on to Istanbul , Sarajevo , Safed and Alexandria , but the largest colony took shape ... arrived . 3 The Arrival of the Sefardim WHEN EVLIYA CHELEBI , 45 45 The Rose of Sultan Murad.
... arrived in droves . Some went on to Istanbul , Sarajevo , Safed and Alexandria , but the largest colony took shape ... arrived . 3 The Arrival of the Sefardim WHEN EVLIYA CHELEBI , 45 45 The Rose of Sultan Murad.
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Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. 3 The Arrival of the Sefardim WHEN EVLIYA CHELEBI , the seventeenth - century Ottoman trav- eller , came to describe Salonica he provided a characteristically ... Arrival of the Sefardim.
Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. 3 The Arrival of the Sefardim WHEN EVLIYA CHELEBI , the seventeenth - century Ottoman trav- eller , came to describe Salonica he provided a characteristically ... Arrival of the Sefardim.
Contents
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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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