Metadata: Scrapbooks of Johannes Gennadius
Collection
- Country:
- Greece
- Holding institution:
- American School of Classical Studies at Athens
- Holding institution (official language):
- Αμερικανική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα
- Postal address:
- 54 Souidias Street 106 76, Athens
- Phone number:
- (+30) 213 000 2400
- Web address:
- http://gak.ach.sch.gr/
- Email:
- ascsa_info@ascsa.edu.gr
- Title:
- Scrapbooks of Johannes Gennadius
- Title (official language):
- Λευκώματα Ιωάννη Γεννάδιου
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gennadios, Ioannis; American School of Classical Studies; Gennadius Library
- Date(s):
- 1878/ 1913
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Modern (1453-)
- German
- Extent:
- 116 volumes of 60-70 pages
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Graphic material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
Part of the Gennadius library archive are the scrapbooks of Joannes Gennadius. As a personal collection, Gennadius collected photos and other ephemera: clippings from newspapers and books, engravings, printed matter, broadsides, invitations and many other materials. All elements have been attached to pages of large albums, sometimes accompanied by handwritten notes. The archive contains ten items related to Jewish history:
663 - Album 035 - Issue 1 - Two Pages s032 - Item c: Photograph of officers and nurses on the steps of the Second Military Hospital, which was located on Ethnikis Aminis Street (former Hamidie Avenue) in Salonica, at the edge of the city's Jewish cemeteries.
675 - Album 035 - Issue 1 - Two Pages s033 - Item b: Photograph of a view of the Allatini Villa on Vasilisis Olgas Street (Depot) in Salonica. The Allatini mansion was designed in 1888 by the Italian architect Vitaliano Pozelli and was the summer residence of the Jewish family Allatini, one of the most wealthy and prominent in Salonica.
679 - Album 035 - Issue 1 - Two Pages s033 - Item f: Photograph pf Greek soldiers, many wearing a Red Cross armband, outside the Allatini mansion, on Vasilisis Olgas Street (Depot) in Salonica.
889 - Album 035 - Issue 1 - Two Pages s054 - Item a: Photograph of Greek soldiers standing or sitting at the entrance steps of the Allatini mansion, on Vasilisis Olgas street (Depot) in Salonica.
922 - Album 035 - Issue 1 - Two Pages s053 - Item b: Photograph of military doctors and nursing personnel at the entrance of the Second Military Hospital of Salonica, which was on Ethnikis Aminis Street (former Hamidie Avenue) in Salonica, at the edge of the city's Jewish cemeteries.
8153 - Album 014 - Issue 1 - Two Pages s006 - Item c: Invitation addressed to Ioannis Gennadios (1844-1932) from the Goldsmith family to the wedding of their daughter, Rosie, on 27 March 1893. The wedding took place at the synagogue in London.
8157 - Album 014 - Issue 1 - Two Pages s006 - Item g: Entrance card for the synagogue, where on 27 March 1893 the wedding of Baron Wilhelm Königswarter and Rosie Goldsmith took place.
8514 - Album 034 - Issue 1 - Two Pages s025 - Item e: Page cut from a book with an engraving by Josef Weiser, depicting a mob of Turks and Jews mistreating the dead body of the Orthodox Archbishop Georgios on the streets of Constantinople.
9741 - Album 103 - Issue 1 - Two Pages s048 - Item a: Cover of the "Funny Folks" magazine from 27 July 1878. It bears an engraving by Stafford, depicting a Romanian who has just been freed from his fetters (implying the Ottoman rule) and is using them to hit an old man in Jewish dress. It is a comment on the violence by the Romanians against the Jewish population as soon as the former were liberated from the Ottomans with the Treaty of Berlin on 13 July 1878.
10103 - Album 103 - Issue 1 - Two Pages s101 - Item d: Page from the magazine "Punch, or the London charivari", May 1897, which features an engraving by Swain, with the title "The Turkish Shylock". It depicts the Sultan, who is likened to the avaricious Jew Shylock from Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice", asking for commissions while holding a knife; Europe is depicted as Portia, from the same play, trying to hold him back. It is a comment on the high commissions demanded by the Ottoman Empire as an indemnity from Greece, when the former was victorious in the Greco-Turkish War in 1897.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Johannes Gennadius, the creator of these scrapbooks, seems to have been interested in the socio-political news and information of his times. Through these personal albums he gives his impression on the late 19th early 20th century life. The Jewish element is present and/but always with an ambiguous semantic, perhaps following the dynamics of the current affairs.
- Access points: locations:
- Constantinople
- Greece
- London
- United Kingdom
- Access, restrictions:
- Internet access
- Finding aids:
- There is an online index.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://www3.ascsa.edu.gr/
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum of Greece
- Author of the description:
- Dora Kechagia
