Metadata: Personal Fonds – Dr Fridrih and Vladimir Pops
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, LF - FVP
- Title:
- Personal Fonds – Dr Fridrih and Vladimir Pops
- Title (official language):
- Лични фонд-Др Фридрих и Владимир Попс
- Creator/accumulator:
- Fridrih; Pops, Vladimir
- Date(s):
- 1900/1960
- Language:
- Serbian
- Hebrew
- English
- German
- French
- Extent:
- 0.9 linear metre (3 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises the personal documents of Dr Fridrih Pops and his son, Dr Vladimir Pops, various records from the post-war period relating to the fate of Ruža Pops, Dr Pops' wife, property issues etc. The collection, although fragmentary, provides a valuable resource for researching the history of this distinguished family.
- Archival history:
- The collection was given as a gift to the Museum by the rabbi of Serbia.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Dr Fridrih Pops was born on 25 November 1874 in Belgrade. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade. He participated in the work on the adoption of the Law on the Jewish Religious Community of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He was a member of the Yugoslav Democratic Party. From 1919 to 1936 he was a counsellor and was the deputy president of the Belgrade Municipality in 1920. He was the head of the Jewish Ashkenazi Community between 1910 and 1941. He was one of the founders of the Federation of the Jewish Religious Communities of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (SJVO SHS (SJVOJ)) in 1919 in Osijek, the first vice president, and the president of the Executive Board in Belgrade and the president of the Federation of the Jewish Religious Communities of Yugoslavia from the Fifth Congress of the Alliance, held in 1933, until his death in 1948. When World War II broke out in Yugoslavia he was arrested and taken to a camp in Graz. After the liberation he resumed his work to renew the work of the Federation. Dr Fridrih Pops died in Belgrade on 25 May 1948.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Pops, Fridrih
- Pops, Ruža
- Pops, Vladimir
- Subject terms:
- Personal records
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system of arrangement.
- Finding aids:
- A catalogue of documents is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Bojan Zorić; Jewish Historical Museum; 2020