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 33
... women of every description - paraded pitiably by the Turks in long lines throughout the cities of Thrace and Macedonia , " wrote the Italian merchant - antiquarian Cyriac of Ancona . They were " bound by iron chains and lashed by whips ...
... women of every description - paraded pitiably by the Turks in long lines throughout the cities of Thrace and Macedonia , " wrote the Italian merchant - antiquarian Cyriac of Ancona . They were " bound by iron chains and lashed by whips ...
Page 38
... women ) possessions into 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 ...
... women ) possessions into 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 ...
Page 39
... women , is one of the out- standing examples of early Ottoman architecture in the Balkans . Until the 1960s , travellers could still wash themselves in what were latterly called the Paradise Baths . Today the constant flows of 39 The ...
... women , is one of the out- standing examples of early Ottoman architecture in the Balkans . Until the 1960s , travellers could still wash themselves in what were latterly called the Paradise Baths . Today the constant flows of 39 The ...
Page 54
... women were prone they were particularly fond of bracelets , gold necklaces and pearl chokers worn " so close to one another and so thick one would think they were riveted on to one another " -the noise of musicians at parties and ...
... women were prone they were particularly fond of bracelets , gold necklaces and pearl chokers worn " so close to one another and so thick one would think they were riveted on to one another " -the noise of musicians at parties and ...
Page 55
... women danced together - to the dismay of Greek Jews were all attracting unfavourable comment . In 1554 a rabbinical ordinance ruled that " no woman who has reached maturity , including married women , may take outside her home , into ...
... women danced together - to the dismay of Greek Jews were all attracting unfavourable comment . In 1554 a rabbinical ordinance ruled that " no woman who has reached maturity , including married women , may take outside her home , into ...
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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