Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews

Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews
Mark Mazower

Please note that this edition does not include illustrations.The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation.Salonica is the point where the wonders and horrors of the Orient and Europe have met over the centuries.Written with a Pepysian sense of the texture of daily life in the city through the ages, and with breathtakingly detailed historical research, Salonica evokes the sights, smells, habits, songs and responses of a unique city and its inhabitants. The history of Salonica is one of forgotten alternatives and wrong choices, of identities assumed and discarded. For centuries Jews, Christians and Muslims have succeeded each other in ascendancy, each people intent on erasing the presence of their predecessors, and the result is a city of extraordinarily rich cultural traditions and memories of extreme violence and genocide, one that sits on the overlapping hinterlands of both Europe and the East.Mark Mazower has written a work of astonishing depth and originality about this remarkable city. Magnificently researched and beautifully written, it is more than a book about a place; it studies in detail the way in which three great faiths and peoples have inhabited the same territory, and how smooth transitions and adaptations have been interwoven with violent endings and new beginnings.

SALONICA

CITY OF GHOSTS

Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430–1950

MARK MAZOWER

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Contents

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TITLE PAGE (#uc2388842-f02c-54e8-a968-d297aa25adf5)

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LIST OF MAPS (#u37e2f38b-5607-5796-8934-c1605038cc47)

INTRODUCTION (#uc1c437d9-8093-5c3f-8f10-a1fe79d0e420)

PART ONE: The Rose of Sultan Murad (#u7f64903d-8f6e-52e0-ae40-719276603835)

1 Conquest, 1430

2 Mosques and Hamams

3 The Arrival of the Sefardim

4 Messiahs, Martyrs and Miracles

5 Janissaries and Other Plagues

6 Commerce and the Greeks

7 Pashas, Beys and Money-lenders

8 Religion in the Age of Reform

PART TWO: In the Shadow of Europe

9 Travellers and the European Imagination

10 The Possibilities of a Past

11 In the Frankish Style

12 The Macedonia Question, 1878–1908

13 The Young Turk Revolution

PART THREE: Making the City Greek

14 The Return of St Dimitrios

15 The First World War

16 The Great Fire

17 The Muslim Exodus

18 City of Refugees