085119
Arhiv Vojvodine - Bar-Ilan University
Novi Sad - Ramat Gan
2021
16,5×23,5
meki
418
engleski
Price: 20,00 EUR
Prior to the German invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, Backa had a Jewish population of some sixteen thousand, representing 20 percent of Yugoslav Jewry and 2 percent of the district's population. There were seventeen Neolog communities, following a Conservative rite, and nine Orthodox communities. One-third of the Jews were engaged in trade and commerce, 20 percent were office workers, 10 percent were professionals (doctors, lawyers, and so on), and a similar number were skilled craftsmen and industrial workers. The Jewish community had a considerable impact on Backa's cultural and educational life and on charitable activities. In March 1944, when the German army entered Hungary, the culprits in the Backa crimes returned to the country and took part in the deportation of Hungarian Jews to extermination camps.
