Evreiskaia obshchina (g. Zagreb)

Evreiskaia obshchina (g. Zagreb)  

lsraeliticka bogoštovna op ina (Zagreb); Jewish Community of Zagreb  

Evreiskaia obshchina (g. Zagreb)  

lsraeliticka bogoštovna op ina (Zagreb); Jewish Community of Zagreb  

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The collection's contents are catalogued in one inventory. The collection's documents consist primarily of correspondence: internal community correspondence (on public events, the execution of intracommunity administrative duties, educational issues, religious issues, the distribution of Zagreb synagogue positions, and so on); correspondence with Jewish and Zionist organizations, including the Union of Jewish Religious Communities of Yugoslavia, the Ashkenazi community of Belgrade, the Sephardic community of Sarajevo, the Hochschule for Jewish Studies in Berlin, the Dr. Bernard Singer Jewish charitable organization (Subotica), the Jewish religious community of Croatia, the Palestine Bureau in Yugoslavia, the Union of Rabbis of Yugoslavia, the Jelena Prister Jewish society to aid Jewish refugees, the Zionist Federation of Yugoslavia, the association of Jewish retirement homes and orphanages in Novi Sad, the Zagreb Union of Zionist Women, Keren Hayesod, and Keren Kayemeth Lelsrael. There is also correspondence with the HICEM office in Paris on support for Jews emigrating to Palestine. The collection also contains correspondence with Yugoslav authorities (the Ministry of Religious Confessions) and Zagreb city authorities on various issues. Included are petitions, requests, complaints, applications for Yugoslav citizenship and Zagreb residence permits, and for the extension of Yugoslav visas for certain foreign Jewish figures.