Views of Cosmopolitan Thessaloniki: The Postcards of the Beza family

ISAAC M. BEZA COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS This collection is a family inheritance of the family of Mr. Joseph Florentin, discovered in the home of his...

Some of the cards depict themes from Jewish life in various countries. They were sent mainly on the occasion of Jewish holidays, or, in...

An extremely strange subject for postcards is the massacre of the Armenians in Adana, Türkiye in 1909. It seems they were printed by Levantines,...

The languages used by the Beza family and their associates in their correspondence are mainly French, often mixed with Italian, Judeo-Spanish (both in Latin...

Many postcards, mainly sent by Isaac Beza's colleagues, proudly depict both the existing technology in effective use, e.g. textile factories, as well as the...

Cards sent by associates of Isaac Beza, demonstrating the extent of the family's trade relations not only in the Near East, the Balkans and...

The names of the many cities and countries on the postcards represent Europe and the Near East on the eve of the First World...

Images from places that even today attract tourist interest could as a matter of course not be missing. Some remain famous and eternally popular;...

EXHIBITION CURATOR Zanet Battinou RESEARCH – TEXTS Christina Meri Alexios Menexiadis TEXT EDITING Alexios Menexiadis GRAPHIC DESIGN Hayia Cohen Eliza Solomon COMMUNICATIONS Elisa Solomon PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE Leonidas Papadopoulos The Jewish...