Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950

Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950
ISBN-10
0307427579
ISBN-13
9780307427571
Category
History
Pages
538
Language
English
Published
2007-12-18
Publisher
Vintage
Author
Mark Mazower

Description

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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