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

Salonica City of Ghosts is Mark Mazower’s history of Christians, Muslims and Jews in Salonica (modern day Thessaloniki in Greece) between 1430 and 1950. Salonica was, for five centuries, a Mediterranean port where East met West, home to one of the most extraordinarily diverse societies in Europe. A microcosm of world history, Salonica’s Roman ruins and Byzantine monasteries, synagogues and mosques, Jewish dock workers, Ukrainian slaves, Greek shopkeepers, Ottoman pachas and Albanian brigands were testament to a tolerant imperial world where creeds and languages mingled and clashed in an atmosphere of shared piety.