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 29
... passed messages saying they wished to surrender : the pro - Ottoman faction within the walls was as powerful as it had ever been , its numbers swelled by Murad's prom- ises of good treatment if the city gave in . To the aged Archbishop ...
... passed messages saying they wished to surrender : the pro - Ottoman faction within the walls was as powerful as it had ever been , its numbers swelled by Murad's prom- ises of good treatment if the city gave in . To the aged Archbishop ...
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... a vakf was also a way of ensuring that wealth passed down through the family , since relatives could be nominated as managers and trustees of the foundation , and receive payment . Benefactors spelled out the 38 SALONICA , CITY OF GHOSTS.
... a vakf was also a way of ensuring that wealth passed down through the family , since relatives could be nominated as managers and trustees of the foundation , and receive payment . Benefactors spelled out the 38 SALONICA , CITY OF GHOSTS.
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... passed through at the end of the sixteenth century and what struck him - despite the " fine and wide streets downtown , a fountain in almost every one , many columns visible along them , some ruined and some whole " -was that the city ...
... passed through at the end of the sixteenth century and what struck him - despite the " fine and wide streets downtown , a fountain in almost every one , many columns visible along them , some ruined and some whole " -was that the city ...
Page 45
... passed through , it was a Jewish guide who showed him round , and the Jews of the city were many times more numerous than in Venice itself . Of the three main religious communities contained within the walls - Muslims , Christians and ...
... passed through , it was a Jewish guide who showed him round , and the Jews of the city were many times more numerous than in Venice itself . Of the three main religious communities contained within the walls - Muslims , Christians and ...
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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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