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This title in other editionsSalonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950by Mark Mazower
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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.
Synopsis:A vivid narrative history captures the multicultural world of Salonica, from its heyday as a Byzantine port, through its role as a progressive center of the Ottoman Empire, to its occupation during World War II by the Nazis, revealing how its position as a center of progressive equality among diverse cultures and religions was gradually eroded, culminating in the Nazis' destruction of its Jewish inhabitants. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Synopsis: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.
About the AuthorMark Mazower is professor of history at Columbia University and Birkbeck College, London. His books include Inside Hitler’s Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941—44, winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History and the Longman/History Today Award for Book of the Year. He lives in New York City.
From the Hardcover edition. Table of Contentspt. 1. The rose of Sultan Murad — Conquest, 1430 — Mosques and Hamams — The arrival of the Sefardim — Messiahs, martyrs, and miracles — Janissaries and other plagues — Commerce and the Greeks — Pashas, beys, and money-lenders — Religion in the age of reform — pt. 2. In the shadow of Europe — Travellers and the European imagination — The possibilities of a past — In the Frankish style — The Macedonia question, 1878-1908 — The young Turk revolution — pt. 3. Making the city Greek — The return of Saint Dimitrios — The First World War — The great fire — The Muslim exodus — City of refugees — Workers and the state — Dressing for the tango — Greeks and Jews — Genocide — Aftermath — Conclusion: the memory of the dead.
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