É. Apor , I. Ormos (ed.): Goldziher Memorial Conference, June 21–22, 2000, Budapest.

ORMOS, István: Photographs front the Family Album of the Goldzihers

PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE FAMILY ALBUM OF THE GOLDZIHERS István Ormos Budapest The Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives in Budapest possess fifty photographs of the Goldziher family. Some of these arc preserved in a mutilated family album, others are single items. However, it can be assumed that some of the latter at least originally belonged to the family album but were removed in subsequent years. Although research into the exact provenance of the photographs is not possible at present because of the ongoing rearrangement of the relevant section of the Archives, it can be assumed that most of the photographs were incorporated into the Archives after the death of Ignaz Goldziher's son, Károly (1881-1955), wh° '

eft no descendants. On the other hand, some come probably from relatives and friends to whom the Goldzihers may have given them as tokens of remembrance. Some of these photographs have appeared in various publications but most of them are completely unknown. I was actually trying to trace the correspondence of Gyula (Julius) Fischer, an acquaintance of Max Herz Pasha's, which is known to have survived World War II and in which items related to Herz Pasha are likely to occur.

1 There was some probability that the correspondence in question might be found in the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives so I went there only to discover that it was unknown there. However, during our discussion Chief Archivist Zsuzsanna Toronyi mentioned the Goldziher photographs. When 1 learned of their existence I immediately thought that their publication in the present volume would add a personal touch to the series of scholarly articles delivered in honour of the founder of Islamic studies. I think that they bring Goldziher and his family closer to us and enable us to catch some of the aura of this outstanding scholar. It would have been preferable to publish all the photographs but space considerations made this 1 Fischer visited Herz Pasha in Cairo and we owe to him a moving obituary. Julius Fischer, 'Max Herz Pascha', Pester Lloyd (Morgenblatt) 72, 9 July 1925, col. 80-93. See István Ormos, Max Her: Pasha: His Life and Activities in Egypt (forthcoming). Samuel Löwinger, Alexander Scheiber, István Hahn, 'Report on the Hebrew MSS in Hungary with special regard to the Hungarian fragments of the Cairo Genizah', Actes du XXL Congrés international des Orientalistes, Paris - 23-31 Juillet 1948, Paris 1949, 119 (no. 7). 285