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A Roma Journey

11.05.2022 Maša Miloradović

We present photographs that form a part of Tihomir Đorđević’s scientific work. He was a Serbian ethnologist and a professor at the University of Belgrade. In his PhD dissertation, Die Zigeuner in Serbien (The Roma People in Serbia), defended at the University of Munich in 1902, he pointed at the four directions of Roma immigration to Serbia (from Turkey, Romania, Banat and Bosnia).

Translated by Tatjana Domazet

GALLERY SLIDESHOW

Girls from Aleksinac belonging to the Quran Roma people who immigrated from Turkey and kept the Islamic religion. The photograph was taken at Mileta Rajković’s studio in Aleksinac around 1900, PDM

A group of Romani women with children belonging to the Quran Roma people who immigrated from Turkey and kept the Islamic religion. The photograph was taken at Mileta Rajković’s studio in Aleksinac around 1900, PDM

„Mija with his two sons and a member of his company“ was written on the back of the photograph by Tihomir Đorđević, taken in Aleksinac before 1908. Đorđević mentioned Mija and his musicians in his works „Roma People in Serbia and their Music“ and „Faith, Way of Life and Occupations of the Roma People in the Kingdom of Serbia“, PDM

„Roma ’King’ Mihailo Kvik“  - noted by Tihomir Đorđević, PDM 

Musicians from Senaja, the wider area of Belgrade, PDM

A tent set up by the Roma people from Donji Milanovac who had arrived there from Banat (Austria-Hungary), PDM

Lingurari, an ethnic group of Vlach Roma (who immigrated to Serbia from Romania), in a village called Jošanica, near Sokobanja, PDM

Roma funeral in Aleksinac – the escort of the deceased consisted of three people – a mourner (1), the carrier of the coffin (2) and the carrier of the cross (3), PDM

Between the East and the West, tradition and innovations: graphic art decorations of Slavo-Serbian books written in the Cyrillic script (1494–1638)
The exhibition encompassес elements of the graphic art (illustrations, flags, initials, etc.) of books written in the Cyrillic script, published between 1494 and 1638 in the Serbian variant of the Old Church Slavic language. Those books were mainly intended for ecclesiastical use, except for the collection of miscellaneous content, consisting of religious and didactic books intended for a wider audience. Special attention will be paid to the iconographic peculiarities of the graphic art decorations of early imprints which were influenced both by the ideas of the manuscript tradition and the incorporation of contemporary Renaissance ideas. 
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