Briefly Noted 12

Authors

Mark L. Movsesian, St. John's University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Title

First Things

Publication Date

2005

Volume

August - September 2005

Abstract

(Excerpt)

In 1430, Sultan Murad II conquered Thessalonica, the second city of Byzantium, for the Ottomans. His successors welcomed Jews expelled by Spain in 1492, and for the next four-and-a-half centuries three religious communities “Christian Greeks, Muslim Turks, and Sephardic Jews” shared the city. In this comprehensive history, Columbia Professor Mark Mazower describes the complicated and often fractious relationship among these groups.

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Book Review of Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews by Mark Mazower.