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You can learn about the history of the Novi Sad Jews, their rich cultural and economic legacy, and also the tragedy of one generation, by visiting these particular buildings and monument. Your knowledge about the community which emerged and developed together with the city will be enrichened with many facts, exciting stories and numerous events which followed the community through time. Tragically, the horrors of the Second World War destroyed it. This is a memory of the former life and community they shared with their neighbours and fellow citizens of different faiths and nationalities.
The first Jew Mark Phillip arrived in 1693 In 1720 in Petrovaradinski Šanac, as RackoSelo was then officially called, three Jews inhabitants were registered In the following decades twelve young Jews settled in the village looking for the right place for their young families This place was suitable for the...
Built in1909, it dominates the view of Jevrejska street The consecration was performed on 8th September 1909 The designer was the famous architect Lipot Baumhorn The dimensions of the building are 52x25metres, the height of the main cupola is 40 metres, and of both side cupolas 27 metres. The diametre...
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The Jewish primary school’s history begins long ago in 1796 and involves changing building and location several times The last school building was raised in 1907, which with the Jewish municipality building and the synagogue, makes a unique architectural entity The Jewish primary school distinguished itself with its outstanding teaching...
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Already by the first decades of the 18th Century the Novi Sad Jews had gathered in the Comunitas Judaeorum –the Jewish municipality Throughout the entire history of the Novi Sad Jews many important issues concerning the community have been settled here As part of the project of building a new...
Caring for its poor, the old, sick and orphaned constituents is also an important function of the Jewish municipality from its founding The first refuge was built in 1933 and constantly upgraded and expanded In 1936, the building of a second part of the planned complex was undertaken with accommodation...
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It gathered together numerous sections and associations of the Jewish municipality, with diverse programmes and events The center was built in 1935 It was built in the modern style with two floors on the street facing side and towards the synagogue a tract on which there was a hall with...
Jelena Kon, a prominent member of the Jewish municipality, founded in 1925 the ecumenical humanitarian organization for the aid of endangered and neglected children and mothers After this, a kindergarten is also opened, a home for infants, a kindergarten and medical counselling, and the society was given the name „The...
The building was constructed in 1908 after the design of the famous architect Lipota Baumhorn, a Hungarian Jew It is called after the man who commissioned and owns the palace Joseph Menrath It was commissioned as a residential-commercial building, with shopping units on the groundfloor and flats on the above...
Lipot Baumhorn conceived the architectural plan for the former State mortgage bank on the central city square The building was constructed in 1904 It was the first time that a mezzanine construction of reinforced concrete had been used The exterior is ornate with many details, a tastefully laid out shallow...
After several changes of location, the Jewish cemetery has stood on this place from 1800 Some of the monuments from the earlier cemetry were transferred to the new plot of land The representative chapelwas completed in 1905 The monumental entrance is framed by columns and above the entrance is a...
The sculpture entitled Family is the work of the academic sculptor Jovan Soldatović It was installed in memory of the murdered 1300 Jews, Serbs and Roma in the notorious Raid by the occupying Hungarian forces Criminal mass executions took place at this place on 23rd January 1942 In 1971 the...