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Selected records of Jewish Communities of former Yugoslavia during the interwar and postwar period,

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2008.15 | RG Number: RG-49.009M

Overview

Description: This collection contains various records that include minutes of board meetings, registry books of members of the Jewish communities, financial records, records of the Burial Society (Hevra Kadisha), vital statistics, correspondence with the local authorities and other records of the following Jewish communities of the former Yugoslavia: Skopje in Macedonia; Belgrade, Novi Sad and Vrsac in Serbia; Osijek in Croatia. Also includes several major Jewish newspapers published in the prewar Yugoslavia - Jevrejskij Glas (Jewish Voice), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina ( 1928-1931), Herald of the Sepahardic Community of Belgrade (1939-1940) and Zidovske novine (Jewish News,) published in Belgrade in (1917-1940).
Date: inclusive: 1913-1950
Credit Line: Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Physical Details

Language: Serbian Croatian German Italian Hungarian Bulgarian
Extent: 15,272 digital images : JPEG ; 17.1 GB.
32 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
System of Arrangement: Arrangement is thematic.

Rights & Restrictions

Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
Conditions on Use: Reproduction and publication require a written permission from source archives.
Copyright Holder: Savez jevrejskih opština Srbije i Crne Gore. Jevrejski istorijski muzej

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Jews--Yugoslavia--History. Jews--Yugoslavia--Statistics. Jewish newspapers.
Geographic Name: Skopje (Macedonia) Novi Sad (Serbia) Vršac (Serbia) Osijek (Croatia)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Savez jevrejskih opština Srbije i Crne Gore. Jevrejski istorijski muzej
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Jevrejski istorijski muzej (Jewish Historical Museum) in Belgrade. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection from the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in March 31, 2008.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Record last modified:: 2022-07-28 17:50:42
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