Metadata: Central Press Bureau of the Presidency of the Ministerial Council of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Archives of Yugoslavia
- Holding institution (official language):
- Архив Југославије (Arhiv Jugoslavije)
- Postal address:
- Vase Pelagića 33, 11000 Belgrade
- Phone number:
- (+381 11) 3690-252
- Web address:
- http://www.arhivyu.gov.rs
- Email:
- arhivyu@arhivyu.rs
- Reference number:
- AJ-38
- Title:
- Central Press Bureau of the Presidency of the Ministerial Council of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- Title (official language):
- Централни пресбиро Председништва министарског савета Kраљевине Југославије
- Creator/accumulator:
- Central Press Bureau of the Presidency of the Ministerial Council of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- Date(s):
- 1903/1941
- Language:
- Serbian
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Extent:
- 173.6 linear metres (1,515 boxes, 25 volumes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
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The collection comprises documents related to organisation and activities of the Central-Press Bureau, reports of its correspondents from within Yugoslavia and abroad, information on newspapers and publications, domestic and foreign journalists, on censorship of Yugoslav newspapers, information on interior and foreign political aspirations of the country, on economic development, state administration, tourism, film industry, information on the propaganda activities of foreign countries, and documents related to social, political and economic circumstances.
The material includes the private correspondence of Stanislav Vinaver, the Serbian writer and Central-Press Bureau official of Jewish origin. There are also German press clippings collected by the Berlin office of Central-Press Bureau and documents related to the measures against Jews in Germany and their property. The collection also contains information on censorship and bans of newspapers, among them the “Vesnik” edited by the Jewish Sephardic Community in 1939, of Jewish public lectures in Zagreb in 1938 and censorship of Adolf Hitler’s book ‘Mein Kampf’ in 1934 initiated by the state prosecution in Maribor.
Furthermore, the fonds includes documentation collected on Josip Aroeti and Žiga Bošković, Yugoslav journalists, and correspondents of foreign newspapers. Records on foreign journalists and their movements in Yugoslavia detail Jewish journalists’ activities. A collection of press clippings from the Yugoslav and foreign press described the position of Jews in Yugoslavia, the relevant law on religious communities, various public demonstrations of Jews, Jewish youth activities and their economic, political and cultural life, measures against Jews and their publishing activities, and disturbances.
There are also documents relating to rules and decrees which regulated status of Jewish citizens (such as the Law on legal status of Jews in Romania and their release from the army, the Law on the protection of the Bulgarian nation from wealthy Jews), the interpellation of senator Majstorović on 360 Jewish families who moved from Germany in 1933, statistical data on Jewish citizens and on antisemitism.
- Archival history:
- The records were transferred by the State Secretariat for Foreign Affairs in 1960, by the Archives of Serbia in 1967, by the Administrative and Accounting Office of the Federal Executive Council (SIV) in 1970 and finally by the Department for Archiving and Documentation of the Presidency of the Communist Alliance of Yugoslavia in 1975.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The Central-Press Bureau of the Presidency of Ministerial Council of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was formed in 1929 to perform the duties of a state intelligence service. After the Second World War broke out in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav government moved to London in 1941, the Central-Press Bureau ceased to operate. In its place the Yugoslav government in exile in London founded the Direction for Informative Services.
The Central-Press Bureau had Administrative, Informative and Publishing Departments, each divided in several sections. It had correspondents both from Yugoslavia and abroad. It collected information on domestic and foreign newspapers and on political, financial and economic circumstances in Yugoslavia as well as in other countries, it informed about events in the country, about interior and foreign politics, and about the relationships of the Kingdom with other countries.
- Access points: locations:
- Germany
- Yugoslavia
- Access points: persons/families:
- Aroeti, Josip
- Bošković, Žiga
- Vinaver, Stanislav
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in the following classification groups: organisation and scope of the Central Press Bureau; reports of correspondents from the country and abroad; material about financial, cultural, educational, and demographic situation in administrative units and institutions on the territory of Yugoslavia; technical information on interior and foreign Yugoslav politics; film and tourism; radio service; material on social and health care issues; international congresses; information for domestic and foreign journalists; material on the condition, development and economy of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia; foundation and work of foreign propaganda ministries; accounting; radio news; domestic and foreign newspapers; Central Press Bureau Bulletin and other publications; “Avala” Agency bulletins; press clippings.
- Finding aids:
- An analytical inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Jelena Jovanović; Historical Archives of Belgrade; 2019
