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 7
... century Bey Hamam , the largest Ottoman baths in Greece , or admire the distinguished mansion now used as a local ... centuries of urban history is quite another . What , I wondered , did it do to a city's consciousness of itself ...
... century Bey Hamam , the largest Ottoman baths in Greece , or admire the distinguished mansion now used as a local ... centuries of urban history is quite another . What , I wondered , did it do to a city's consciousness of itself ...
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... century villas hidden behind rusting railings and overgrown weeds amid the rows of postwar suburban apartment blocks . The palatial three - storey pile in its own pine - shaded estate , now the main seat of the Prefecture , turned out ...
... century villas hidden behind rusting railings and overgrown weeds amid the rows of postwar suburban apartment blocks . The palatial three - storey pile in its own pine - shaded estate , now the main seat of the Prefecture , turned out ...
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... century , Sabbetai Zevi , and the persistent faith of his followers , who followed him even after his conversion to ... Centuries of European antipathy to the Ottomans had left their mark . Their presence on the wrong side of the ...
... century , Sabbetai Zevi , and the persistent faith of his followers , who followed him even after his conversion to ... Centuries of European antipathy to the Ottomans had left their mark . Their presence on the wrong side of the ...
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... century such long - forgotten stories are eagerly awaited and sought out - but to see the experiences of Christians , Jews and Muslims within the terms of a single encompassing historical nar- rative . National histories generally have ...
... century such long - forgotten stories are eagerly awaited and sought out - but to see the experiences of Christians , Jews and Muslims within the terms of a single encompassing historical nar- rative . National histories generally have ...
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... century rabbis adjudicate on long - forgotten marital rows , business wrangles and the tribulations of a noisy , malodorous crowded town . The diary of a Ukrainian political exile depicts unruly Jewish servants drunk in the mud ...
... century rabbis adjudicate on long - forgotten marital rows , business wrangles and the tribulations of a noisy , malodorous crowded town . The diary of a Ukrainian political exile depicts unruly Jewish servants drunk in the mud ...
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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