Metadata: Personal Fonds – Vidosava Janković
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Historical Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Јеврејски историјски музеј (Jevrejski istorijski muzej)
- Postal address:
- Kralja Petra 71A, 21000 Belgrade
- Phone number:
- (+381) 112622-634
- Web address:
- http://www.jimbeograd.org/
- Reference number:
- AJIM, LF - VJ
- Title:
- Personal Fonds – Vidosava Janković
- Title (official language):
- Лични фонд-Видосава Јанковић
- Creator/accumulator:
- Janković, Vidosava
- Date(s):
- 1944/2016
- Language:
- Serbian
- English
- French
- German
- Extent:
- 0.6 linear metre (2 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- In addition to records related to family history, this collection includes documents which detail the role of Vidosava Janković’s mother in the reconciliation of two great scientists of Yugoslav origin, Mihail Pupin and Nikola Tesla. There are also documents related to the documentary film made by her uncle Maks Kalmić about pre-war Belgrade.
- Archival history:
- Vidosava Janković presented this collection to the Jewish Historical Museum Belgrade in 2018. At the transfer of the documents, she explained that her ancestors with the name of Kalmi, from her mother's side, were one of the first families to adapt their surname to the Slovenian format by adding the suffix -ić.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Vidosava Janković completed her elementary and high school in Chicago and New York. She passed the additional graduation exam at the Second Women's Gymnasium in Belgrade in 1937. She studied French and English languages at the Sorbonne from 1937 to 1939 and graduated in English at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 1949. She worked as a lecturer-translator at TANJUG from 1944 to 1950 and as a lecturer at SANU from 1950 to 1952. She was elected lecturer for English at the Faculty of Philosophy in 1952 and also worked at the newly established Faculty of Philology from 1960 to 1967. She received her PhD in 1965 from the University of Zagreb. She specialised in American literature at the University of California in 1966/67 and in the same year she was elected assistant professor of American literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. She was elected associate professor in 1982, and until her retirement in 1984 she taught at the Universities of Sarajevo and Novi Sad. She was a member of the Association of Literary Translators of Serbia, the president of the Section for Theory, History and Criticism of that Association, the member of the Program Council of the TV Belgrade and many other domestic and foreign professional associations.
- Access points: locations:
- Belgrade
- Yugoslavia
- Access points: persons/families:
- Janković, Vidosava
- System of arrangement:
- The documents are partially arranged.
- Finding aids:
- There is a catalogue of the documents and the box has a contents list.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Bojan Zorić; Jewish Historical Museum; 2020
