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
... past that was absent from the urban landscape of southern Greece - Turkish neighbourhoods that had out- lived the departure of their inhabitants ; fountains with their dedicatory inscriptions intact ; a dervish tomb , now shuttered and ...
... past that was absent from the urban landscape of southern Greece - Turkish neighbourhoods that had out- lived the departure of their inhabitants ; fountains with their dedicatory inscriptions intact ; a dervish tomb , now shuttered and ...
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... past . The expansion of the docks since the Second World War has obliterated the seaside amusement park - the Beshchinar gardens , or Park of the Princes - where the city's inhabi- tants refreshed themselves for generations ; today it ...
... past . The expansion of the docks since the Second World War has obliterated the seaside amusement park - the Beshchinar gardens , or Park of the Princes - where the city's inhabi- tants refreshed themselves for generations ; today it ...
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... past , and tried to reconcile what I knew of the 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 ...
... past , and tried to reconcile what I knew of the 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 ...
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... past which man- ages to reconcile the continuities in its shape and fabric with the radical discontinuities the deportations , evictions , forced resettlements and genocide which it has also experienced ? Nearly a century ago , a local ...
... past which man- ages to reconcile the continuities in its shape and fabric with the radical discontinuities the deportations , evictions , forced resettlements and genocide which it has also experienced ? Nearly a century ago , a local ...
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... 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 Ukrainian political exile ...
... 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 Ukrainian political exile ...
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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