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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Page 6
... centre encap- sulated the city's endless metamorphoses - contained some of the earli- est mural mosaics to be found in the eastern Mediterranean . Next to it stood an elegant pencil - thin minaret , nearly one hundred and twenty feet ...
... centre encap- sulated the city's endless metamorphoses - contained some of the earli- est mural mosaics to be found in the eastern Mediterranean . Next to it stood an elegant pencil - thin minaret , nearly one hundred and twenty feet ...
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... centre ? Or did the forced exchange of populations in 1923 — when more than thirty thousand Muslim refugees departed , and nearly one hundred thousand Orthodox Christians took their place— suddenly turn one city into a new one ? Was the ...
... centre ? Or did the forced exchange of populations in 1923 — when more than thirty thousand Muslim refugees departed , and nearly one hundred thousand Orthodox Christians took their place— suddenly turn one city into a new one ? Was the ...
Page 10
... centre of rabbinical learning , the disruption caused by the most famous False Messiah of the seventeenth century , Sabbetai Zevi , and the persistent faith of his followers , who followed him even after his conversion to Islam , formed ...
... centre of rabbinical learning , the disruption caused by the most famous False Messiah of the seventeenth century , Sabbetai Zevi , and the persistent faith of his followers , who followed him even after his conversion to Islam , formed ...
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... centre of -.1 major cult, attracting Jews as well as Christians and pagans. The adoration of Dimitrios swept the city, and by the early nineteenth century—the first time we have a name-by-name census of its inhabit-.mts—one in ten ...
... centre of -.1 major cult, attracting Jews as well as Christians and pagans. The adoration of Dimitrios swept the city, and by the early nineteenth century—the first time we have a name-by-name census of its inhabit-.mts—one in ten ...
Page 24
... centre of humanistic learning and theological debate. .\/I-any new churches were established, turning it into a treasure-house of late Byzantine art. .\~Ionasticism spread to the Balkans from Egypt and Syria, and the great foundations ...
... centre of humanistic learning and theological debate. .\/I-any new churches were established, turning it into a treasure-house of late Byzantine art. .\~Ionasticism spread to the Balkans from Egypt and Syria, and the great foundations ...
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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