"We survived 5"

The promotion of the book "We survived 5" was held in The Jewish Community of Belgrade, on May 19th. The book is the last edition in this series and terminates the collecting and publishing of individual testimonies of the Jews from ex - Yugoslavia who suffered during the II WW. The members of Editorial Board – Andreja Preger, Eta Najfeld, Luci Petrović, Eva Čavčić, Teodor Kovač, Eva Timar (posthumously), Eli Deleon (posthumously), Boža Rafailović, Aleksandar Mošić, Milinko Radević, Miroslav Demajo, Aleksandar Gaon and Branka Džidić - were awarded with Menorahs for their work lasting over a decade. At a future special ceremony, they will be awarded the Megilah for their work. In the autumn, the English edition of the book "We survived 3" is expected to come out of press.The plan of the Editorial Board is to also translate the two last books. For all information regading the books and their purchase, please contact Dr. Miroslav Demajo-Assistant to the Editorial Board, email: jewishmuseumbgd@gmail.com or directly contact Jewish Historical Museum. Donations for help in publishing the future volumes in English are welcome.

The Night of Museums

For the third time, the Jewish Historical Museum participated in the manifestation "The Nihght of Museums“. We are very pleased that our museum visited over 3000 visitors who were very interested to hear and learn more about the heritage of Yugoslav Jews.

The Jewish Historical Museum in Pozarevac

As the guests of Mrs. Beba Stanković, the director of the city library "Ilija M. Petrović", on June 8th in Požarevac was held an evening dedicated to Jewish history and culture. On the programme was the film “Jews our Citizens“ in the production of the Jewish Historical Museum, author Dragan Krsmanović and the lecture on Jews in Serbia and ex-Yugoslavia by historian Dušan Sindik. The Jewish Community of Serbia was represented by Aleksandar Nećak , the President of Federation of Jewish Communities in Serbia, Miroslav Ginvald, Manager of the Federation, Vojislava Radovanović, the Director of the Jewish Historical Museum and Branka Džidić, Museum archivist.

Jevremova Street

Celebrating The Day of Stari grad Municipality, the Jewish Historical Museum participated in the manifestation "Jevremova – ulica susreta " with the documentary slide s how "The Destiny of a Belgrade Family – Avram Amar and his Descendants", by the author Barbara Panić, the Museum curator. The slide show was repeatedely screened to many passers-by in front of the house where the numerous family lived at the begining of the XX century. Most of them perished in the Holocaust. During the I Balkan War in 1912, four brothers from this family fell as heroes and were decorated. Today, in Belgrade a street is dedicated to them.

„The Day of Jewish Culture" in the International Cultural Centre in Belgrade

The Jewish Historical Museum, in cooperation with the International Cultural Centre in Belgrade, from March 3rd to 6th organized „The Day of Jewish Culture". Despite the cold March days, interest for the very rich and widely covered programme that our museum offered the visitors was more than expected. The event was opened by Mrs. Vojislava Radovanović, director of the Jewish Historical Museum, and together with the collaborators of our museum, Mr. Dušan Sindik, historian, Dr. Mladenka Ivanković, from the Institute for Recent History of Serbia and Dr. Milan Koljanin, from the Institute of Contemporary History, promoted "Jewish Studies 9". During the following days were presented: the documentary "The Jews - Our Citizens" by Dragan Krsmanović, historian, the lecture "History of Jews" by historian Dušan Sindik and The Collection of Papers from the Academic Conference in Yad Vashem published by the Museum of Genocide Victims - "Israeli-Serbian Academic Exchange in Holocaust Research". The historians of art, Vesna Adić and Vuk Dautović presented their papers:"Concepts of Apolo and Dionisie as Defined by Niche in the works of Leon Koen" and "Collection of Amulets from the Jewish Historical Museum in Belgrade".

The International Day of Holocaust

In the Jewish Community of Belgrade, on January 27th, On the the International Day of Holocaust, the documentary "The Jews- Our Citizens" by the author Dragan Krsmanović, historian, has been presented. During the same evening, there was a promotion of a Collection of Papers from the Academic Conference held in Yad Vashem in 2008 - "Israeli-Serbian Academic Exchange in Holocaust Research". Protosingel Jovan Ćulibrk and the historians Dr. Milan Koljanin and Jovan Mirković gave a presentation of the book.

Exibitions

This is something what make us very proud:
Jewish Historical Museum organized the remarkable exhibition entitled "Philatelic Judaica Documents II" and published the corresponding catalogue. The exhibition was displayed from 9th until 16th September 2008. The author was Dr. Mirko Caran. The editor in chief of the exhibition catalogue was Mr. Vojislav Begovic, art historian. Just one month later the Jewish Historical Museum got the bronze medal and Certificate of high quality for its catalogue within the International Philatelic exhibition – Philatelic Literature – organized in Montenegro in October, 2008.

In the Servantes Gallery in Belgrade on the 3rd of April the Jewish Historical Museum opened an exhibition of reproductions taken from the Sephardic Hagada books. Most of displayed reproductions originate from the remarkable Sarajevo Hagada. The exhibition drew attention of wide public and lasted until 15th of May 2008.

The Jewish Historical Museum participated in the exhibition dedicated to Jews of the Backa region (north-west of Serbia) which was successfully organized by the City Museum of Senta. For this exhibition our Museum loaned 23 exhibits from its Judaica collection carefully chosen to represent the Jewish culture and customs of the mentioned region. The exhibition was opened on 26th April and will last until the 30th June, 2008.