Salonica, City of Ghosts by Mark Mazower

Based on solid archival research, it intertwines the city’s political history with glimpses of its daily life, including the appearance of European carpets, sideboards and marble-topped tables in middle-class houses of fin-de-siècle Salonica and the emergence of a modern press. But Mazower’s richly textured work does much more than offer a few object lessons for today. Alternating currents of religious coexistence and bloodshed make this a history whose contemporary relevance is too clear. The Jewish community’s lively history might be seen as the heart of the text, while the story of the Jews’ extermination at the hands of the Nazis gives the narrative its moral depth.

Salonica became a center of Jewish mysticism and, in the 17th century, of messianic fervor.

Beginning in medieval times, the city also contained a large, Ladino-speaking Jewish population, comprised of exiles who made their way there after being expelled from western European countries. The Ottoman Empire brought Islam and the replacement of churches with mosques. Christianity came first: Energized around the third-century martyr Dimitrios, Salonica developed into a robust center of eastern Orthodoxy. What makes the city’s history so distinctive and riveting is its religious diversity. There it remained until 1912, when it reverted to Greek control-control that temporarily gave way to the Nazis during WWII.

Mazower (History/Columbia Univ Dark Continent, 1998, etc.) begins his history of Salonica-Thessaloniki in Greek-in antiquity, but quickly leaps forward to 1430, when the Byzantine city came under Ottoman rule. Urn:oclc:843026054 Republisher_date 20180122161930 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 506 Scandate 20180121054050 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Top_six true Tts_version v1.Engrossing study of a city that three cultures, religions and peoples can call home. Urn:lcp:salonicacityofgh00mazo:lcpdf:8ff6e6f2-c242-4284-88f4-d83eb9aa7c93 Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier salonicacityofgh00mazo Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5圆7m50z Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780375412981Ġ375412980 Lccn 2004057690 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary O元309332M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:48:35 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA1163521 Boxid_2 CH120923 City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition Reprinted External-identifier

Salonica, City of Ghosts by Mark Mazower