Salonica, city of ghosts :
Mazower, Mark
Salonica, city of ghosts : Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 / Mark Mazower. - London : HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. - xiv, 525 pages, approximately 32 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Travellers and the European imagination -- The possibilities of a past -- In the Frankish style -- The Macedonia question, 1878-1908 -- The young Turk revolution -- The return of St. 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.
"In 1943 Salonica's Jews were deported to Auschwitz, leaving the city entirely Greek for the first time since Sultan Murad II had entered it in triumph five centuries earlier. The deportations marked the real ending of Ottoman Salonica, where one of the most extraordinarily diverse societies in Europe had lived on the shore of the Mediterranean amid the city's minarets and cypresses, its ruined Roman arches and Byzantine churches. Under the sultans, Christians, Muslims and Jews alike had endured the terrors of plague and famine. In the docks and bazaars even the shoe-blacks, porters and lemonade sellers spoke half a dozen languages. Egyptian merchants and Ukranian slaves, Spanish-speaking rabbis and Turkish pashas rubbed shoulders with Orthodox pilgrims, Sufi dervishes and Albanian brigands. Creeds clashed and mingled in an atmosphere of shared piety and messianic mysticism.
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Thessalonike (Greece)--History
949.565
Salonica, city of ghosts : Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 / Mark Mazower. - London : HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. - xiv, 525 pages, approximately 32 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Travellers and the European imagination -- The possibilities of a past -- In the Frankish style -- The Macedonia question, 1878-1908 -- The young Turk revolution -- The return of St. 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.
"In 1943 Salonica's Jews were deported to Auschwitz, leaving the city entirely Greek for the first time since Sultan Murad II had entered it in triumph five centuries earlier. The deportations marked the real ending of Ottoman Salonica, where one of the most extraordinarily diverse societies in Europe had lived on the shore of the Mediterranean amid the city's minarets and cypresses, its ruined Roman arches and Byzantine churches. Under the sultans, Christians, Muslims and Jews alike had endured the terrors of plague and famine. In the docks and bazaars even the shoe-blacks, porters and lemonade sellers spoke half a dozen languages. Egyptian merchants and Ukranian slaves, Spanish-speaking rabbis and Turkish pashas rubbed shoulders with Orthodox pilgrims, Sufi dervishes and Albanian brigands. Creeds clashed and mingled in an atmosphere of shared piety and messianic mysticism.
0007120230
Thessalonike (Greece)--History
949.565