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There are a good number of publications that are written about and by people in the family and the broader family too.

We share their publications, books, articles, poems and writings with affection.

Rae Dalven
Publications
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Romaniote Jewish Community of New York

An article published in the Journal of Modern Hellenism, Numbers 23-24/Winter 2006-2007 by Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos

This paper describes the Romaniote Jews who lived in Greece for over 2,300 years.

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Oscar Colchamiro

Uncle Oscar served in the Army during World War II.  He was stationed in India and China. He compiled an album of his time in the these countries.  

The PDF of My Trip Overseas to the Orient is 119 pages.

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Jesse Colchamiro

Jessie wrote his 1931 college thesis on the Confederacy and how they lost the war. He describes in great detail with many references to support his position in describing how the outcome of the war resulted in the North winning.

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Sidney Landau

Sidney served in World War II and wrote a book about his experiences changing from civilian to warrior. In From Boots to Iwo Jima he recounts through letters to Terry his feelings and about being so far away from his family and what it meant to him.

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Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue & Museum

The synagogue’s library houses an extensive collection of books on Greek Jewry, written in English, Hebrew, Greek, French and Italian, and it has the largest collection of English-language books on Greek Jewry in the world, all for sale though its website and gift shop. The link is to the synagogue & museum.

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Oscar Colchamiro

During his time in India and China, Uncle Oscar took many photographs. This is a photo album of his time in India and China.

This PDF of photos is 52 pages. A history well worth exploring 

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Rhoda (Elison) Hirsch

Daughter of Jesse Colchamiro Elison, she wrote a short story about her Nona (Speranza Matza Colchamiro) for a college senior elective, "Creative Writing", The course was taught by the renowned author Philip Roth. This PDF copy of the story is with hand-written notes in the margins by Mr. Roth.

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Maya - Writes a Letter

Great granddaughter of Morris and Esther, she expresses her views about what is happening in 2021. Published as a Letter to the Editor in her local paper, entitled Riots and Rage; Happiness and Hope. A profound insight from such a young age of only a decade old.

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Rae Dalven
Romaniote Author

Rae Dalven was a Romaniote author. She is best known for her translations and for her books and plays about the Jews of Ioannina. Rae Dalven was Professor and Chair of English Literature at Lady Cliff College. She was a professor of Modern Greek literature at NYU, where a prize is offered in her name.
Born: April 25, 1904, Preveza, Greece

Died: July 30, 1992, New York, NY

Education: New York University

Books*: The Jews of Ioannina

*Book available at Kehila Kedosha Janina Bookstore, link to order.

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Sarah Burakoff

Aunt Sarah was a prolific writer in her later years.  She published several books which are available on Amazon.com under Sarah Burakoff, which the button below will take you to.  Some of her books and others ebooks.  Either way, enjoy the writing of Aunt Sarah

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Terry Landau

She was a linguist, a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse; she taught folk dancing; she was a poet, a writer. She took her family to Ioannina which she chronicled in a family diary.

She also wrote about her parents.

Husband Sid wrote a book of WWII.

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Michael Matsas

Michael Matsas covers the Greek Holocaust historically and integrates his own personal memoir and memoirs from interviews with Greek survivors of Auschwitz and those who hid during the occupation of Greece. A 2021 article in Hellanic News of America highlights the role of Greece causing the ultimate defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
Michael Matsas is related to us through marriage into the Colchamiros

Oscar Photo Albums
Sidney Landau
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