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if the goal is in part to make sense of US politics around both Israel and antisemitism: the absence of any meaningful discussion of the impact of white northern racism and settler colonialism on US politics and thought is a major shortcoming. HOWEVER the analysis of *European* politics and thought is fascinating! TLDR: I admire mazower for writing outside his scholarly comfort zone, also see the drawbacks to this.

Writing this is clearly of personal moral importance to Mazower and I greatly respect that. It is also pretty far outside his area of scholarly expertise (southeast Europe and in particular I think interreligious dynamics in Southeast Europe) and as a result it’s pretty uneven. The parts about Europe are great, the parts about the US are lacking.

i really like mark mazower after reading his book about the Balkans, aaaaand maybe if i listen to all his existing audiobooks someday someone will make an audiobook of salonica city of ghosts????

Bought this to find answers that simply can’t be answered with kitchen talks, newspapers or reddit posts. Let’s see what it brings