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Salonica, City of Ghosts. Christians, Muslims and Jews
Door Mark Mazower
Categorie | Geschiedenis Europa |
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Boeknummer | #404278-UH24 |
Titel | Salonica, City of Ghosts. Christians, Muslims and Jews |
Auteur | Mazower, Mark |
Boektype | Paperback |
Uitgeverij | London, Harper Perrenial |
Jaar van uitgave | 2005 |
ISBN10 | 0007120222 |
ISBN13 | 9780007120222 |
Taal | Engels |
Beschrijving | Paperback, numerous illustrations in colour and b/w, 8vo. |
Samenvatting | Jaffa - famed for its orange groves - was for centuries a city of traders, merchants, teachers and administrators, home to Muslims, Christians and Jews alike. That is, until the founding of the state of Israel, which was simultaneously a moment of jubilation for the Jews and a disaster - the Naqba - for the 100,000 Arabs who fled Jaffa in 1948. Through the stories of six families - three Arab and three Jewish - Adam LeBor delicately illuminates the complexity of modern Israel, going beyond the media stereotypes and political rhetoric to tell a moving human story. From the Christian Arab car-dealer, the Jewish coffee-and-spice merchant and the Arab baker who makes bread for the whole community, to the Jewish schoolgirl who befriends an Arab drug dealer, these people strive to make a life in... (Lees verder) a country born of conflict. |
Pagina's | 525 |
Conditie | Goed |
Prijs | € 8,00 |
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