Metadata: Jewish Community of Sarajevo and the Territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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/
- Reference number:
- AJIM, JOS
- Title:
- Jewish Community of Sarajevo and the Territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Title (official language):
- ЈО Сарајево и простор БиХ
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Community of Srajevo
- Date(s):
- 1870/1945
- Language:
- Serbian
- German
- Hebrew
- Ladino
- Extent:
- 0.6 linear metre (2 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains documents related to the events that took place prior to World War II, to meetings of the active members of the community and to the Singing Society “Lira“. It also includes photographs of individuals and of various activities, as well as records on the perishing of the Jewish community in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), and to the members of the People's Liberation War.
- Archival history:
- As soon as the Historical-Museum Department was established within the Federation of the Jewish Communities, documents related to the Jewish communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, stored in two boxes, were deposited with the Department. One referred to the Jews from the area of Sarajevo and the other to all other Jewish communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- According to historical data, the Jewish Community of Sarajevo dates back to the first arrivals of the Jewish families to Sarajevo in 1565, either individually or in groups, some fifty years after their persecution from Spain and Portugal. They settled in the Sarajevo quarter called Il Curtižo, where they erected the synagogue Il kal grandi in 1581. The Jews of Sarajevo were primarily engaged in trade, but their contribution to the intellectual and free professions was considerable. The Jewish Community of Sarajevo existed throughout the Ottoman and Austro-Hungary Empires, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Socialist Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia, until the modern times, and it used to be one of the strong pillars of the identity of the Jews in Sarajevo.
- Access points: locations:
- Sarajevo
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Music
- Photographs
- World War II
- System of arrangement:
- The collection was not arranged according to archival principles. It was classified thematically, based on the activities of individuals or the community in the respective area.
- Finding aids:
- No finding aids have been created.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Bojan Zorić; Jewish Historical Museum; 2020
