New York Times headline on Feb 21 1909. DAILY NEWS RECOUNTS THE SOUTH OMAHA GREEK TOWN  RIOTS OF 1909 Published in The National Herald, April 20, 2019 ------------------------------ I am excited that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ NEW YORK – The New York Daily News recently recounted the history of the infamous Greek Town riot of 1909 which took place in South Omaha and led to nearly the entire Greek population fleeing from the city at that time. The article, Justice Story: Fearmongering and racism drove Greek immigrants from Nebraska by David Krajicek, cites the 1964 master’s thesis by the late historian John G. Bitzes from the University of Nebraska, Omaha, titled “The anti-Greek riot of 1909: South Omaha.”  The National Herald also reported on the historic riot in an article about more recent discrimin...

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The following article is available through www.academia.edu THE EMIGRATION OF GREEKS FROM EGYPT  DURING THE EARLY POST-WAR YEARS by Angelos Ntalachanis Excerpt from article: The historiography of the Greek exodus from Egypt refers to the post-war emigration with a single term:  “outflow.”  Considered to presage the mass exodus that took place at the beginning of the 1960s, the phenomenon has never been analyzed in detail.  By the 1930s an important number of Greeks had left Egypt for Greece.  One of the reasons for this early departure was unemployment, which resulted from economic and social changes in Egypt that occurred after independence, in 1922, and the abolition of the Capitulations, in 1937.  The situation in Greece in the interwar period was favorable to “repatriation”.  In this period, however the main concern of the Greek diplomatic authorities in Egypt was to promote self-control in order to prevent the mass “repatriation” of ...

Overview - Modern History of Greek Communities in Egypt "In 1907, the census showed 6,924 Greeks living in Egypt. By 1940, Greeks numbered about 25,120. The Greek community in Alexandria lived around the church and convent of Sabbas the Sanctified. In the same area there was a guest house for Greek travelers, a Greek hospital and later a Greek school. The Greek Orthodox bishop was based in Damietta in the church of Nikolaos of Myrna. In Cairo, the first organised Greek community was founded in 1856, with the community based in three main neighbourhoods: Tzouonia, Haret el Roum (Street of the Greeks), and in Hamzaoui. The patriarchate was based in Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, Azbakeya. The monastery of Saint George, in Old Cairo still survives. The monastery is surrounded by a huge wall and topped by a stone tower. Within its walls there was a Greek hospital, a school and housing for the elderly and poor. In addition to the Greek communities of Alexandria a...

GREEK PRISONERS OF WAR IN TURKEY IN EARLY 1924 & THE INFAMOUS LABOR BATTALIONS By Stavros T. Stavridis Published in The National Herald, August 28, 2018 ------------------------------ I am excited that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ At the end of the Greek-Turkish war in September,1922, the Kemalists detained Greek males aged 17-45 and deported them to work in the infamous labor battalions in the Anatolian interior. The vast majority of these were Anatolian Greeks and also captured Greek soldiers. These men suffered terribly at the hands of their Turkish captors with many of them perishing from thirst, disease, exhaustion, exposure, and beatings. The two Greek-American daily newspapers – Atlantis and National Herald – published an account of Greek prisoners of war and interned civilians detained in Turkey in J...

TheGreekReporter.com - Above, watch the full length video  In 2009, we visited the Princes’ Islands for the first time to discover some amazing Greeks, that -to this day- live there. They are the last guards of Greek history and culture on these beautiful islands where the Greek population has gone from tens of thousands to only 80. Watch our short documentary below and see  The Last Greeks of Princes Islands  talking about the Greek past and future of the Islands. Original music composed by  Ioannis Goudelis.  It is not easy to see people expelled from their homes, especially when the story is personally told by one of them who decided to go back and save the house in which he was born. It is a long and painful story with lots of political mistakes. According to the Greek residents of Princes Islands, the hatred between Turks and Greeks belongs to the past and Turkey is more tolerant to minorities and people of Greek decent who live in harmony...

MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM TO EXHIBIT GREEK, BYZANTINE ICONS Published in the Orthodox Observer, May - June 2018 Clinton, Mass. - The Museum of Russian Icons will present the first major exhibition on Icons of the Hellenic World  from June 22 to Oct. 21. The exhibition focuses exclusively on Greek and Byzantine iconography and will delve deeply into the links and the continuity of Greek art and culture from Late Antiquity, through Byzantium, to the present.  "We are very grateful to Emmanuel Tiliakos for the opportunity to showcase his extraordinary collection, giving contemporary viewers a window into the richness of Greek culture and history," says Museum of Russian Icons CEO and Curator Kent Russell.  "Though icons are considered works of art, they are important cultural and religious relics.  As they are handed down through generations, icons are often the only surviving testimonies of places and peoples long gone." Largely comprised of icons created aft...

GREEK BORN REUNITED ADOPTEES Facebook Group:  Greek Born Reunited Adoptees Description:  None ----- Comments:  This group has 52 members (as of the date of this posting).  Doesn't seem to have recent activity, however, I requested membership and received a response within a few minutes.  

Facebook Group:  Greek Adoptees in Search of Their Birth Family Description: Greek adoptees who were born 1950-1985 in Greece and adopted in USA. ----- Comments: As of the date of this posting there are only 12 members in this group. It is a closed group and you must become a member to view postings by other members.

The Book “GREEKS IN QUEENS – Images of America Series”, authored by Christina Rozeas, Forward by Constantine E. Theodosiou, was published in 2012 by Arcadia Publishing.   I purchased the book through Arcadia Publishing, but it is also available through other vendors.   ---------- Below you will find a description of the book, the Table of Contents, and a list of 38 names. This book includes 190 photographs.  Unlike some of the other books in the Images of America Series, very few people in the photographs are identified. ---------- DESCRIPTION: By the early 1900s, New York was becoming a melting pot for immigrants hailing from different nations.  Though many settlers chose Manhattan as that home, others ventured forward into the borough of Queens.  America itself was named the "land of opportunity," and Greeks seeking those opportunities developed the largest Greek community outside of Athens in Astoria.  Through th...

GREEK ORPHAN BECOMES TOP U.S. NAVY GUNNER Published in The National Herald, April 22, 2006 Issue Authored by Steve Frangos Special to the National Herald ------------------------------ We are excited to announce that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ ----------------------- Within wider American Society, George Sirian, one of the pioneer Greek immigrants of the 1820's, continues to receive recognition in a fashion that no other Greek American historical figure can now claim. An orphan and refugee from the 1824 Ottoman massacre on the island of Psara, young Sirian was destined to lead an extraordinary life. For reasons lost to history, he has never received his place of honor in the annals of Greek American history. Far from recalling some obscure historical individual, George Sirian's life and career have b...

Issue Vol. 32 / 2016 of the Journal of Modern Hellenism was published entirely on the subject of the GREEKS OF HOLLYWOOD.  This looks so interesting.  I haven't had time to read it myself, but plan on doing so over the next week.  Enjoy it! READ THE ENTIRE JOURNAL FOR FREE -  http://journals.sfu.ca/jmh/index.php/jmh ARTICLES The Greek American Image in American Film:  Creation of a Filmography by Barbara Saltz From "Other" to "One of Us":  The Changing Image of Greek Americans in American film:  1943-1963 by Dan Georgakas The Hollywood Films of Irene Papas by Gerasimus Katsan Before and Beyond America America by Stathis Giallelis And the Winner is Olympia Dukakis by Elaine Thomopoulos Working Through and Against Convention:  The Hollywood Career of A. I. Bezzerides by Yiorgos Kalogeras Creating Images for Hollywood Classics by Vicki James Yiannias Forgotten Movie Theater Pioneer:  Alexander Pantages and Immigrant Hol...

The Greek News Agenda published an article titled " Explore Greek Manuscripts Online at the British Library " on March 10, 2017. " Historians, biblical scholars and students of classical Greece alike no longer have to make the trip to the British Library’s reading rooms since most of the  British Library’s Greek manuscripts  are now accessible online. As a result of the Library’s Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Project, which began in 2008 and is funded by the  Stavros Niarchos Foundation , full digital coverage and new catalogue descriptions of 905 Greek manuscripts are now available to researchers with high resolution colour images of each manuscript, including flyleaves and bindings, with an up-to-date description of its content and codicological features, and an extensive bibliography."  . . . . READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE