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148 M. Дамјановић, О једном документу јеврејске вероисповедне општине...

Milos M. Damjanovic
University in Pristina
Faculty of Philosophy- Kosovska Mitrovica

ON ONE DOCUMENT OF A JEWISH RELIGIOUS MUNICIPALITY
OF NOVI PAZAR FROM 1937

Abstract: Within the paper, statistical data shall be presented on a Jewish
community in the town of Raska, for the condition in the previous year, in 1936.
The data, being processed by the central body of the Jewish community in the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia­ the Association of Jewish Religious Municipalities. The
administration of JVO Novi Pazar has collected thoroughly, processed neatly and
sent promptly it to the seekers. The data, being of interest for the Association,
are related to general occurrences in the Jewish municipalities related to
demographic, membership, municipality institutions, religious life of a man,
their schooling, professional orientation and the condition of the municipality
budget. The document is in the possession of the author and it completely belongs
to the entity of the same subjects of other Jewish religious municipalities of the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia. They all appeared from the same needs and finished at
the Association address, and it processed them further on, and served them for
the current and future activities. The documents are in the form of an application
form, with questions and free spaces left for their answers, typed on a typing
machine, in the Serbian language and Latin alphabet. There are in total of 14
questions, allocated in two sides of one paper sheet of the document. With the
sender’s and receiver’s seals, there are signatures of the authorized persons in
front of the sender, being guaranteed for their credibility of the offered data.

Key words: Jews, Sephardin, Ashkenazi, Judaism, Zionism, Yugoslavia, Novi
Pazar, Serbs, Christianity, Muslims.