Interfered and Erased Jewish Properties of Belgrade Cover Image

Preuzeta i izmenjena zdanja jevrejskog vlasništva u Beogradu
Interfered and Erased Jewish Properties of Belgrade

Author(s): Nikola Šuica
Subject(s): Culture and social structure , Rural and urban sociology, History of Antisemitism
Published by: HESPERIAedu
Keywords: Jewish community; Assets; Belgrade; urban changes; modernization; Serbia; 20th Century; Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: The core of this text is to point a selected buildings and locations that were part of Jewish properties of pre WWII Belgrade. Discussed examples of Jewish Assets tthroughout a survey belong to a preserved fact of development of Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of Yugoslavia’a capital city. In remains of such records throughout decades is an imprint of emancipation of Jewish Community as a part of cultural history. Present conditions in 21st Century goal into a physical remains and legal doubts that reflect the claims after the Holocaust in the region and in an evolving, unresolved aftermath of communist nationalization and confiscation. Topographic map of the center of the city district is becoming an increasingly ambiguous by the future of its origin, of its heritage and upcoming generation of successors of Jewish owners, their ties with proprietors and to the fate of their overtaken legal estates during Restitution process in Republic of Serbia.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 123-137
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Serbian