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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/09/2006
ISBN: 9780375727382
Pages: 490
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.25w x 1.10d

Review Citations: New York Times 07/16/2006 pg. 24