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The Jews in Fiume from the 600th to the 900th century
As early as the 600th century, a Jewish community was present in Fiume, relegated to the ghetto between Piazza Tre Re and Calle del Tempio with its own space used as a cemetery in Cosala. It was in 1781 that Emperor Joseph II of Austria issued an Edict of Tolerance, which exempted Austrian Jews from various prohibitive duties and from the obligation to live segregated in ghettos, which was followed by the Hungarian governor of our city, Giovanni Szapary, with their official recognition of their existence. Many Jews arrived in Fiume, attracted by the commercial and port development of the city, which had the status of Corpus Separatum of the Hungarian Crown. They were mostly Hungarians, who...
Remembering the Jewish community of Piran
Jews in Piran have never been numerous, but until the 40s they were an almost constant presence. The future Morpurgos, the Jewish family that also took their surname from Maribor, also passed through here. This was explained by historian Boris Hajdinjak in his exhaustive speech that retraced Jewish history, also touching on our territory. Inspired by Zlatka Vokač Medic's novel “Marpurgi” and the homonymous exhibition set up in the Library this month, the director of the Maribor synagogue tried to illustrate the complex facets of the Jewish religion, their different origins and their fates. Istria represented the...
The Jewish Community in the History of the Eastern Border
In 1848, while the “Spring of Peoples” raged throughout Europe, the city of Trieste remained almost inert. Almost, because, in solidarity with the Venetian uprisings that brought the Republic of San Marco to prominence, a portion of the Italian community took to the streets in the most important port of the Habsburg Empire, but the majority of the citizens remained neutral and their loyalty to Vienna earned the city the title of “Urbs fidelissima”. Faced with this disappointment, the young Giacomo Venezian, the leader of the Triestine patriots, reached the Roman Republic and died in its defense, inaugurating a sequence that would lead to numerous...
World War II: The Rescue of Jews in Yugoslavia and Dalmatia
There were approximately 78 Jews living in the territories of the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia when the Nazis entered Belgrade on April 12, 1941. Most were victims of the Holocaust, but several thousand were saved thanks to the Italian army. A book reconstructs the story. 30/10/2017 - Diego Zandel During the Second World War, in the areas of former Yugoslavia occupied by Italians and Germans, Ante Pavelić's Croatian Ustasha allies were certainly not inferior in ferocity to the Nazis towards the Jews (and Serbs and Roma). Indeed, in some cases – excluding the use of crematoria – they were worse. The massacres were such that in order to...
