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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... city's multifari- ous past has not been for lack of sources . Sixteenth - century rabbis adjudicate on long - forgotten marital rows , business wrangles and the tribulations of a noisy , malodorous crowded town . The diary of a ...
... city's multifari- ous past has not been for lack of sources . Sixteenth - century rabbis adjudicate on long - forgotten marital rows , business wrangles and the tribulations of a noisy , malodorous crowded town . The diary of a ...
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... city's Greco-Roman culture had been impregnated with Christian rituals and doctrines. Altliougli the fire of 1917 caused irreparable damage to the priceless mosaics that line its colonnades, enough has remained following its restoration ...
... city's Greco-Roman culture had been impregnated with Christian rituals and doctrines. Altliougli the fire of 1917 caused irreparable damage to the priceless mosaics that line its colonnades, enough has remained following its restoration ...
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... city's inhabitants.3 " From water comes everything " runs the inscription on an Ottoman fountain still preserved in the Upper Town . Fed by rivers and rains and moisture rising from the bay , water bathes the city and its surroundings ...
... city's inhabitants.3 " From water comes everything " runs the inscription on an Ottoman fountain still preserved in the Upper Town . Fed by rivers and rains and moisture rising from the bay , water bathes the city and its surroundings ...
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... city flourished . ROMANS A HELLENISTIC DYNASTY gave Salonica birth but it was under the Romans that it prospered . Shrines to Macedonian and Roman rulers intermingled with temples to Egyptian gods , sphinxes and the city's own special ...
... city flourished . ROMANS A HELLENISTIC DYNASTY gave Salonica birth but it was under the Romans that it prospered . Shrines to Macedonian and Roman rulers intermingled with temples to Egyptian gods , sphinxes and the city's own special ...
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... city's Greco - Roman culture had been impregnated with Christian rituals and doctrines . Although the fire of 1917 caused irreparable damage to the priceless mosaics that line its colonnades , enough has remained following its ...
... city's Greco - Roman culture had been impregnated with Christian rituals and doctrines . Although the fire of 1917 caused irreparable damage to the priceless mosaics that line its colonnades , enough has remained following its ...
Contents
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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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