Lot 381
Collection of Notebooks and Paper Items – Ioannina Community – Greece
Notebooks and paper items from the Ioannina community, Greece: · Two notebooks of stubs of "Kollelot Ir Ioannina", completed by hand (in Greek). 1924-1929. · Notebook in narrow and long format, in Greek (with several Hebrew words), [Ioannina], 1907-1909. · Notebook of donations, with names of community members (in Hebrew). 1919-1920). · 25 empty envelopes of "Kollelot Ir Ioannina". · Several paper items. Among them: a note with a handwritten documentation of a fire which broke out in Ioannina in 1869 and about the damages incurred by Jews.
the Ioannina community, one of the most ancient communities in Greece was settled by Jews after the destruction of the Second Beit HaMikdash. In contrast to most Greek communities, who adopted the Sephardic prayer version after the Spanish Expulsion, the Ioannina community preserved the original Greek version called Romaniote (or Nusach Romanya), based on the early Eretz Israel version. Most of the community perished during the Holocaust.
4 notebooks, 25 envelopes and approximately 15 paper items. Varied size and condition.
