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

"This is an evocative history of one of the most vibrant cities of the Ottoman Empire; Salonica was the Jewish capital of the empire (its lingua franca until the early 20th century was Ladino, the native tongue of the Sephardic Jews) and by far the most important and cosmopolitan city in Greece for hundreds of years under Ottoman rule. An excellent city-biography."