In cooperation with the Center for Study in Cultural Developments, one of the leading cultural institutions in Belgrade, on 18 December 2018, our Museum organized an extremely successful and well attended promotion of an illustrated bilingual (Serbian-English) monograph BURIAL GROUND COMPLEX OF THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN BELGRADE, by Barbara Panić, the curator of our Museum. Speakers at the promotion included the director of the Center, Vuk Vukićević, PhD; Prof. Nikola Šuica, PhD, Belgrade University; Museum director Vojislava Radovanović and monograph […]

The relatively small space of the permanent exhibition of our Museum was not big enough for the great visit of students and their professors of the Economic High sholl of the Kragujevac city.  About 55 students came on December 10th, 2018, and spent few hours in our Museum divided into two groups in order to see and hear all necessary information about Jewish history, culture and customs in Serbia and ex-Yugoslavia. It was more than interesting for all of us […]

In cooperation with our Museum, the State Post Office of Serbia edited in November 2018, the occasional envelopes and postage stamps dedicated to the Jewish sacral architecture in Serbia. Thanks to the excellent painter and designer a very special philately edition appeared, such as the Belgrade synagogue stamp,   and the synagogue of the Novi Sad city as well as the Subotica synagogue, recently restored Also, very appreciated Serbian newspapers POLITIKA payed a great attention to this event Well done!   […]

Since 2013, students and teachers of the Belgrade Fourth High School are visiting our Museum regularly, regardless of whether they want to see some occasional thematically special exhibition or to visit the permanent one.  The main organizer of these visits is prof. Jasmina Ognjenovic, teacher of Serbian language and literature. So recently, on Friday,  2nd November, about 40 students and their three teachers came to our Museum and spent almost two hours  visiting, expressing a great deal of attention and […]

On 17th August 2018, the exhibition “Jews of Serbia in the World War One” was solemnly opened in the National Museum of the city of Zrenjanin (the Banat region, north of Serbia).  This exhibition became very popular ever since it was opened for the first time in 2014, and this was the 15th setting. Exhibition was opened by Mr. Aleksandar Gaon, the deputy president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Serbia and Ms. Vojislava Radovanovic, director of the Jewish […]

In the scope of  a great Serbian museums manifestation by the name MUSEUMS FOR 10, 2018, our Museum staged and on 14th of May opened a beautiful art exhibition of paintings and drawings by the painter Mrs. Mirjana Dragic Lehner from Belgrade. The exhibition was called “The Chosen …”  and this was really justified having in mind that about 70 people came to our small Museum to attend the opening.  Crowd was big and we were happy. The exhibition was […]

Thanks to our dear colleague,  military historian, colonel Dragan Krsmanovic, our Museum staged its exhibition SERBIAN JEWS IN THE WORLD WAR ONE in the National Museum of the beautiful city of Užice, western Serbia.  Exhibition was opened on 24th April, 2018, in the attractive dept. of National Museum called “The Jokanovic’s House” in the old center of the city. Citizens, students, city authorities, local TV and journalists were present. Our Museum was represented by Ms. Rada Petrović, head of the […]

On December 14, 2017, the Conference was held in Belgrade on the occasion of the important  jubilee – 25 YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL. Beside the Ambassador of Israel and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia in the Conference participated prominent Serbian historians and University professors, journalists, Israeli University professors of political sciences, and granddaughter of the appreciated and famous Serbian patriot and Jewish nationalist, doctor David Albala (born in […]

From 30th October to 3rd November 2017, the National Library of Israel organized in Belgrade the first stage of international seminar called AT THE SOURCE. Number of archives, libraries and museums representatives from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Srpska, Macedonia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Greece and Israel were studying and exchanging professional experiences in working on archival and library material. Representative of the Jewish Historical Museum was Mr. Bojan Zoric, historian and archivist. As a part of this stage of seminar […]