Metadata: Periodicals of the Jewish Historical Museum
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Historical Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Јеврејски историјски музеј (Jevrejski istorijski muzej)
- Postal address:
- Kralja Petra 71A, 21000 Belgrade
- Phone number:
- (+381) 112622-634
- Web address:
- http://www.jimbeograd.org/
- Title:
- Periodicals of the Jewish Historical Museum
- Title (official language):
- Периодика Јеврејског историјског музеја
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Historical Museum Belgrade
- Date(s):
- 1888/2015
- Language:
- Serbian
- English
- German
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- French
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
73 Jewish magazines have been published in Serbia, depicting the life of and discussing the numerous activities of the community. Novine Srpske, the oldest Serbian newspaper published in Serbia, was launched in 1834 and was published in Kragujevac, the capital at the time. The first Jewish newspaper in Serbia, launched in 1888, was the monthly El Amigo del Pueblo (“People's Friend”), an informative and cultural-national magazine published by the Jewish community in Belgrade. The first Jewish magazine published in the Serbian language was Zajednica (The Community) , printed in 1906 in Belgrade. The periodicals collection of the museums contains a large number of editions in Serbian and foreign languages, as follows:
Hašalom (‘Peace’ in Hebrew), published in Ladino from 1903 to 1906 in Belgrade. It was printed in the Hebrew alphabet. The Jewish Historical Museum possesses a copy of the front page No. 2, year III.
Zajednica, mladinski zabavno poučni list: organ kluba zajedica (Community, the fun and educational journal of the youth: the organ of the Community Club). This journal began to be published in October 1906 in Belgrade, as a monthly publication. The Jewish Historical Museum holds a copy of No. 4 from April 1907.
Jevrejski glasnik (The Jewish Gazette) was published in Serbian between 1920 and 1923, three times a month. It was of informative, cultural and national character. Photocopy.
Jüdisches Volksblatt: freie jüdische Wochenschrift für die politischen, wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Interessen der jüdischen Nation im Königreiche S.H.S (The Jewish National Journal: the independent Jewish weekly for the political, economic and social interests of the Jewish people in the Kingdom of the Serbs, Slovenes and Croats. It was published in German from January 1921 to April 1924 in Novi Sad. The journal was published weekly and had a national, informative and cultural character.
Schlahmones (Šlahmones), non-partisan evening paper; the name means ‘A Gift for the Purim holiday’. It was published in German and Serbo-Croatian in Novi Sad from 1922, once a year, on 10 pages. It was a humorous paper which fitted the purpose.
Beogradski Jevrejski glasnik (The Belgrade Jewish Gazette) was published for the first time on 11 July 1924 in Serbo-Croatian. Some of the articles and adverts were written in Ladino, French and German. Photocopy.
Israel: Jüdische Wochenschrift von Marthef (Israel: Jewish Weekly of Mortef) was published between 3 July 1925 and 3 July 1928, in German. It was published every Friday. In the first year it was published in Bačka Topola, in the following years in Subotica and Novi Sad. From time to time some articles were published in Hebrew, some in Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian. It was of informative-cultural and national-Zionist character.
The Jewish Almanac (Jevrejski almanah), a collection of articles which was published from 1925 to 1929 in Vršac by the Union of Rabbis of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, in Serbo-Croatian and German. Only five editions were published. The almanac dealt with cultural-historical, literary and religious issues of Judaism.
Sozombat – this journal appeared on 26 July 1925 in Subotica in Hungarian. It ceased to exist on 8 December the same year as a double edition. The last issue was dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Jewish community in Subotica. It was published weekly and had a social, literary and artistic character. It dealt with the social and religious issues of Jews and with Jewish literature.
Zsidó Élet (Jewish Life, in Hungarian) was published from 1928 in Hungarian in Novi Sad. It had informative-national and cultural character. Photocopy.
Hashomer Hazair (The Young Guard in Hebrew) was named after the Jewish Youth Movement in the inter-war years. It started in June 1931 in Subotica in Hungarian, published by the organ of the Jewish Youth Zionist Organisation, until 1937. When that organisation was banned in Vojvodina, the journal began to be published in Novi Sad, under the same title, but in a different format and in Serbian. Photocopies.
Vjesnik Agudat Israela, which first appeared on 30 June 1933 in Subotica in German and Serbo-Croatian. The editor in chief was Vinkler, and it was published weekly in the printing house “Exspres“ in Subotica. It was the newspaper of the orthodox Jews in Subotica. In 1933 it changed its name to Jevrejski vjesnik. Photocopies.
Glasnik Saveza jevrejskih veroispovednih opština (The Gazette of the Union of the Jewish Religious Communities) was published quarterly in Serbo-Croatian from 1933. Only three editions were published. In addition to legislation and regulatory texts, the gazette also published cultural and informative as well as political articles.
Zsidó Ujság (Jewish Newspaper in Hungarian) started on 3 February 1933 in Novi Sad in the Hungarian language. It had informative and national character.
Jevrejski vjesnik, a weekly which dealt with general interests of Judaism, began on 20 September 1933 in Subotica, in Serbo-Croatian and German. It was published each Friday. Photocopy.
Ever Hajarden: Betar Monthly (the other side of Jordan-Transjordan). It was published from 1934 to 1937 in Novi Sad in Serbo-Croatian and was illustrated. Photocopies.
Jevrejski kalendar (The Jewish Calendar) for the Jewish year 5695 (1934-1935) was published in 1934 in Belgrade. The Jewish calendar came out since from year I No. 1 (1935) until the year VII, No. 6 (1941) in German and Serbo-Croatian in Novi Sad. At first it was published fortnightly, later weekly. It was an informative, political-national and cultural calendar.
Jevrejski narodni kalendar (The Jewish National Calendar) was published annually from 1935 until 1941 in Serbo-Croatian. Only six editions were published. It was a cultural, political and national journal, one of the best quality editions of that time.
Jugoslavische Jüdische Rundschau (Yugoslav General Jewish Review) began to be published on 11 October 1935, in German, in Novi Sad. Copies.
Beogradske jevrejske novine (The Belgrade Jewish Newspaper), an independent informative newspaper, was published from year I, No 1 (1936) until year II, No. 12 (1937), in Serbo-Croatian in Belgrade.
Jevrejska korespodencija (JEVKOR) (The Jewish Correspondence) was published in the Serbo-Croatian language in 1936-1940, in Belgrade. Photocopies.
Službeni list Saveza jevrejskih veroispovednih opština Kraljevine Jugoslavije (Official Gazette of the Union of the Jewish Religious Communities in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) was published in Serbo-Croatian between 1936 and 1939 in Belgrade. It came out on the 15th of each month.
Jevrejski opštinar (The Jewish community), a newspaper which dealt with the religious and cultural-social issues of Judaism, came out in Serbo-Croatian and German from 15 January 1937 in Novi Sad. It was published when necessary.
Vjesnik Keren Hajesoda Fonda Za Obnovu Palestine (A Newspaper of the Palestine Reconstruction Fund Keren Hayesod) was published periodically in Serbo-Croatian between 1938 and 1940 in Belgrade. It belonged to Keren Hayesod and had informative and scientific character.
Vesnik Jevrejske sefardske veroispovedne opštine (The Gazette of the Jewish Sephardi Religious Community) was published monthly in Serbo-Croatian from 1939 until 1941 in Belgrade. It was the organ of the community and of cultural-informative and national character.
Glasnik Jevrejske aškenaske veroispovedne opštine (The Gazette of the Jewish Ashkenazi Religious Community) was published in Serbo-Croatian in 1941 in Belgrade. It was the organ of the community and a cultural-informative and political gazette.
During World War II the newspapers Sedmica [The Seventh] and 37 were published in the Osnabrück concentration camp in Germany by Jews and officers of Yugoslav army, from March 1941 until February 1943. 14 editions were published. From March 1943 it continued to be published as 37. Those newspapers dealt with various information from the camp, but also published information and comments from the world gathered from the German press which appeared in the camp. An internal newspaper was also published by the Jewish detainees of the Italina camp in Sumartino on the island of Brač.
Mala Kadima was a youth newspaper which was published during the summer (editions I to IV between 1960 and 1975) as a supplement to the existing Kadima newspaper. The publisher was the Association of Jewish Religious Communities of Yugoslavia. The newspaper was published in places where young people spent their summers (Jahorina, Cres, Mali Zaton, Kaštel, Štafilić, Sutivan on Brač). The paper contained a lot of literary works, impressions from summer vacations, interviews and humour, to serious topics from history, holidays and customs, and news from the local community.
Zbornik Jevrejskog Istorijskog Muzeja – Jewish Studies (Journal of the Jewish Historical Museum - Jewish Studies). This journal initiated collecting and arranging of documentary material and works from all areas of Jewish life in Yugoslavia. The Journal was published occasionally; each edition was thematical.
The Bulletin of the Association of Yugoslav Jews in the United States was published in New York from 1951 until 1989 (187 editions). It dealt with various aspects of the life of Jews in America, with the aim to connect and inform interpersonally.
Bilten – Most (Bulletin – The Bridge), published by Association of the Jews from Yugoslavia in Israel. The Bulletin was intended to exchange information on Jews from Yugoslavia, their life in Israel, on Jews worldwide and connections with the Jewish communities in the homeland. Articles were written in both Serbian and Hebrew. The bulletin was first published in 1953 with the title “Bulletin – The Bridge“; in 2004 it changed its title to “The Bridge“.
- Archival history:
- The periodicals were collected by the Jewish Historical Museum. The collection was created by purchase, exchange with other institutions, gifts and duplication of magazines.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Jewish History Museum was founded in 1948. It came under the responsibility of the Association of Jewish Communities of Serbia. In addition to the museum collections, it also holds significant archival material. The activities of the Museum are diverse, from organising exhibitions and publishing activities to providing professional assistance to researchers, scientists, students, artists and other interested parties. The Jewish History Museum maintains cooperation with individuals as well as with related domestic and foreign institutions.
- Finding aids:
- A catalogue of documents is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Dragana Mitrašinović; Historical Archives of Belgrade, 2020
