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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... homes had probably been born subjects of Sultan Abdul Hamid . The still magnificent eight - mile circuit of ancient walls embraced a densely thriving human settlement whose urban character had never been in question , a city whose ...
... homes had probably been born subjects of Sultan Abdul Hamid . The still magnificent eight - mile circuit of ancient walls embraced a densely thriving human settlement whose urban character had never been in question , a city whose ...
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... homes in brick or wood - often no more than a single small room with a privy attached : a pot of geraniums brightened the window - ledge , a rag rug bleached by the sun served as a door mat , clotheslines were stretched from house to ...
... homes in brick or wood - often no more than a single small room with a privy attached : a pot of geraniums brightened the window - ledge , a rag rug bleached by the sun served as a door mat , clotheslines were stretched from house to ...
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... home of wealthy nineteenth - century Jewish industrialists , the Allatinis ; this was where Sultan Abdul Hamid had been ... homes with their friends and found food still warm on the table . A forty - year - old woman who happened to sit ...
... home of wealthy nineteenth - century Jewish industrialists , the Allatinis ; this was where Sultan Abdul Hamid had been ... homes with their friends and found food still warm on the table . A forty - year - old woman who happened to sit ...
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... home grew and prospered . The accusation that Waldheim had been involved in the Final Solu- tion - unfounded , as it turned out - reflected the extent to which the Holocaust was dominating thinking about the Second World War . Sometimes ...
... home grew and prospered . The accusation that Waldheim had been involved in the Final Solu- tion - unfounded , as it turned out - reflected the extent to which the Holocaust was dominating thinking about the Second World War . Sometimes ...
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... home of Saint Dimitrios " the Orthodox city " -with the Sefardic " Mother of Israel , " it seemed to me that these two histories- the Greek and the Jewish - did not so much complement one another as pass each other by . I had noticed ...
... home of Saint Dimitrios " the Orthodox city " -with the Sefardic " Mother of Israel , " it seemed to me that these two histories- the Greek and the Jewish - did not so much complement one another as pass each other by . I had noticed ...
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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