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The Construction of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Serbia: The Case of the Musician Josif Schlesinger / Konstrukcija jevrejskog identiteta u Srbiji devetnaestog veka: slučaj muzičara Josifa Šlezingera
(Wien : Austrian Musicological Society, 03-04-2021)
This article explores the status of Josif Schlesinger (1794-1870), the first Serbian composer and professional musician in the court of Prince Miloš Obrenović (1780-1860), in the complex process of constructing Jewish ...
The Yugoslav planting campaign in Martyrs’ Forest 1952-1955: symbolism, rituals and meaning / Akcija sađenja jugoslovenskog dela Šume mučenika 1952-1955: simbolika, rituali i značenje
(Beograd : Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije, 2021)
This article will try to examine the phenomenon of memorial forests and their role in the creation of the Holocaust memory of the Jewish community in Yugoslavia. Our intention is to present the Yugoslav Jewish tradition ...
Ḥam Ribi Avram Finci’s Ladino Translation of Selected Texts from the Zohar as a Rare Glimpse into the Methodology of Traditional Bosnian Sephardic Yeshivot (Adult Learning Clubs) and Its Relation to the Local Sufi Islamic Tradition of Ders / Ladino prevod odabranih tekstova iz Zohara Ḥam Ribi Avrama Fincija kao rijetki uvid u metodologiju rada tradicionalnih bosansko-sefardskih ješivot (obrazovnih klubova za odrasle), te veza te metodologije sa lokalnom islamsko-sufijskom tradicijom dersa
(Warsaw : Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2020)
In traditional Sephardic culture, theoretical Kabbalah was an exclusive
patrimony of the rabbinic elite. From the 17th century onward, many Sephardic laymen found even the Hebrew liturgical, and especially speculative, ...
Balkan Jews and Their Neighbors Before, During and Since the Holocaust : a study in ethno-religious (and ideological) relations / Balkanski Jevreji i njihovi susedi pre, tokom i posle holokausta : studija o etno-religijskim (i ideološkim) odnosima
(Arcata (CA) : Department of Sociology at Cal Poly Humboldt, 1983)
This article describes the enormous tragedy of Balkan Jews during the Holocaust from a historical perspective and within the context of the horrendous experiences of their non-Jewish fellow-sufferers at the hands of the ...
Sajmište, Jasenovac, and the Social Frames of Remembering and Forgetting / Sajmište, Jasenovac i društveni okviri sećanja i zaborava
(Filozofija i društvo, 2012)
The article discusses the reasons for the construction, in the 1960s, of a memorial to the victims of the former camp Jasenovac in Yugoslavia, although no such memorial was built at the Sajmište site. How should we explain ...
Sajmište as a European Site of Holocaust Remembrance / Sajmište kao evropsko mesto sećanja na Holokaust
(Filozofija i društvo, 2012)
The article analyzes the peculiarities of the destruction of Serbian Jews during Second Wolrd War in the local and European context. Of all the sites in Serbia relevant to the destruction of the Serbian Jews, Sajmiste is ...
Germany’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Debates and Reactions / Nemački Spomenik ubijenim evropskim Jevrejima. Rasprave i reakcije
(Filozofija i društvo, 2012)
The article outlines the history of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin as a very good example of how long any such procedure is, from idea to realisation, as well as how strong the debate how and whom ...
The Construction of the House of the Jewish Church-School Community in Belgrade and the Process of Jewish Emancipation / Izgradnja doma Jevrejske crkveno-školske opštine u Beogradu i proces emancipacije Jevreja
(Chicago, Ill. : North American Society for Serbian Studies, 2017)
Through the construction of the House of the Jewish Church-School Community
in Belgrade, based on the project by architect Samuel Sumbul (1887-1947), the process of the emancipation of the Belgrade Jewry in the Kingdom ...
The Role of Amateur Theatre ’King David’ in the Preservation of Jewish Culture and Tradition / Uloga amaterskog pozorišta 'Kralj David' u očuvanju jevrejske kulture i tradicije
(Београд : Етнографски институт САНУ / Belgrade : Institute of Ethnography SASA, 2017)
This work focuses on the role of the amateur theatre King David, founded in 1986 with the Jewish community of Belgrade, in the preservation of Jewish cultural heritage and establishing of intercultural dialogue primarily ...
The "Sajmište" (Exhibition Grounds) in Semlin, Serbia: The Changing of Меmory
(Jerusalem : Center for Public Affairs, 2010)
In 1937 a national exhibition site opened in Belgrade. Originally intended to represent indigenous advancements, in 1941 it became a Nazi concentration camp called Sajmište and its main use became the extermination of ...