Hrvatska, srpska, austrijska i mađarska historiografija o povijesti Židova od 1868. do danas
Croatian, Serbian, Austrian and Hungarian historiography on history of Jews since 1868

Author(s): Ljiljana Dobrovšak
Subject(s): Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), 19th Century, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Jews; Judaism; historiography; Croatia;
Summary/Abstract: In the Croatian historiography of the second half of the nineteenth century and during the first half of the twentieth century not much attention was paid to the history of Jews. Only at the turning of the centuries several articles written by some Croatian novelists and journalists can be noticed. At the same time, it is important to note that there were just a few Jewish authors who dealt with their own history. The positive examples were Julije Diamant Grand Rabbi of Vukovar and Gavro Schwarz Rabbi of Zagreb. During the inter-war period there was not much written about Jewish history in Croatia – at the beginning of 20s’ and in the late 30s’ of the twentieth century just two Jewish writers can be traced: Lavoslav Šik and Lavoslav Glesinger. On the other hand, after the World War Two the situation significantly changed. Namely, after the war there was no one in Jewish communities in Croatia who would be interested in investigation of Jewish history. Thus, in the 50s’ authorities founded Jewish historical museum in Belgrade in order to invoke investigation and preserve memory about the history of Jews in the territory of Yugoslavia. Although this museum became a center that gathered a certain number of researchers, none of them ever became predominantly involved in the research of Jewish history. Still, from the 50s’ one can notice a number of articles and discussions dealing with the history of Jews in Croatia and Slavonia (works by Slavko Gavrilović, Miroslava Despot-Bliss etc.), and also in Dalmatia (works by Duško Kečkemet and Bernard Stulli). By the end of the twentieth and at the beginning of the twenty first century attitude towards investigation of the history of Jews has changed. During the last several years many books, articles, memoirs have been published including studies about holocaust and histories of Jews within small local communities.

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