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The history of Jews in the territory of the present-day Republic of Macedonia began in Roman times, when Jews first arrived in the region in the first century BC. Today, no more than 200 Jews reside in the Republic of Macedonia, almost all in the capital, Skopje. For an explanation of terms related to Macedonia, see Macedonia (terminology). ... Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 1st century BC started on January 1, 100 BC and ended on December 31, 1 BC. An alternative name for this century is the last century BC. The AD/BC notation does not use a year zero. ... Location of the city of Skopje (green) in Macedonia Country Macedonia Municipality Government  - Mayor Trifun Kostovski Area  - Total 1,854 km² (715. ...

History of the community

Ancient Roman times

The first Jews arrived in the area now known as Republic of Macedonia during Roman times, when Jews fled persecution in other Roman territories, with some settling in Macedonia^[1]. The first evidence of Jews in the region is an ancient synagogue dating from the 3rd or 4th century BC, in the ancient town of Stobi, in the southeast of the Republic of Macedonia^[2]. Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... The synagogue Scolanova Trani in Italy. ... The 3rd century BC started the first day of 300 BC and ended the last day of 201 BC. It is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period. ... The 4th century BC started the first day of 400 BC and ended the last day of 301 BC. It is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period. ... Stobi was an ancient town of Paionia, later conquered by Macedon, and later still incorporated into the Roman province of Macedonia Salutaris (now in the Republic of Macedonia). ... For an explanation of terms related to Macedonia, see Macedonia (terminology). ...

Sephardic migrations

The area's Jewish community remained small well into Ottoman times, with the next major influx of Jews to the area coming with the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions. Motto دولت ابد مدت Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (The Eternal State) Anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Borders in 1683, see: list of territories Capital Söğüt (1299–1326) Bursa (1326–1365) Edirne (1365–1453) Ä°stanbul (1453–1922) Government Monarchy Sultans  - 1281–1326 (first) Osman I  - 1918–22 (last) Mehmed VI Grand Viziers  - 1320...

As tens of thousands of Jews fled persecution Spain and Portugal, Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire welcomed Jews who were able to reach his territories. They were granted significant autonomy, with various rights including the right to buy real estate, to build synagogues and to conduct trade throughout the Ottoman Empire^[3]. Wealthy merchant cities in the present-day Republic of Macedonia such as Skopje, Bitola and Štip attracted many Jews. Jews in this area prospered in the fields of trade, banking, medicine, and law, with some even reaching positions of power. For other uses, see Sultan (disambiguation). ... Sultan Beyazid II Bayezid II (1447/48 – May 26, 1512) (Arabic: بايزيد الثاني) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512. ... Motto دولت ابد مدت Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (The Eternal State) Anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Borders in 1683, see: list of territories Capital Söğüt (1299–1326) Bursa (1326–1365) Edirne (1365–1453) Ä°stanbul (1453–1922) Government Monarchy Sultans  - 1281–1326 (first) Osman I  - 1918–22 (last) Mehmed VI Grand Viziers  - 1320... For an explanation of terms related to Macedonia, see Macedonia (terminology). ... Location of the city of Skopje (green) in Macedonia Country Macedonia Municipality Government  - Mayor Trifun Kostovski Area  - Total 1,854 km² (715. ... Nickname: Motto: Bitolia, babam Bitolia Location of the city of Bitola (red) within the Republic of Macedonia Coordinates: , Government  - Mayor Vladimir Taleski Area  - City 422. ... Jonnabuz (talk) 11:42, 24 May 2005 (UTC) Categories: Possible copyright violations ...

Relations between the Jews and the local non-Jewish population were generally good.^[4] Confirmation of good conditions for Jews in Macedonia and Ottoman Europe in general comes from a fifteenth century letter from the Macedonian Jew, Isaac Jarfati, sent to German and Hungarian Jews advising them of the favorable conditions in the Ottoman Empire, and encouraging them to immigrate to the Balkans.^[5]

The Jewish community was almost entirely Sephardic, and most spoke Ladino at home as opposed to Hebrew. In the strictest sense, a Sephardi (ספרדי, Standard Hebrew Səfardi, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄ardî; plural Sephardim: ספרדים, Standard Hebrew Səfardim, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄ardîm) is a Jew original to the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal: ספרד, Standard Hebrew Səfárad, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄áraḏ / Səp̄āraḏ), or whose ancestors were among the Jews expelled from... Not to be confused with Ladin. ... The word Hebrew most likely means to cross over, referring to the Semitic people crossing over the Euphrates River. ...

Distribution

Prior to World War II, the area's Jewish community was centered on Bitola (approximately 8,000 Jews), Skopje (approximately 3,000 Jews) ^[6] and Štip (approximately 500 Jews) ^[7]. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Nickname: Motto: Bitolia, babam Bitolia Location of the city of Bitola (red) within the Republic of Macedonia Coordinates: , Government  - Mayor Vladimir Taleski Area  - City 422. ... Location of the city of Skopje (green) in Macedonia Country Macedonia Municipality Government  - Mayor Trifun Kostovski Area  - Total 1,854 km² (715. ... Jonnabuz (talk) 11:42, 24 May 2005 (UTC) Categories: Possible copyright violations ...

Most of these Jews, and almost the entire Jewish community of Bitola, were Ladino-speaking Sephardim. Nickname: Motto: Bitolia, babam Bitolia Location of the city of Bitola (red) within the Republic of Macedonia Coordinates: , Government  - Mayor Vladimir Taleski Area  - City 422. ... Not to be confused with Ladin. ... In the strictest sense, a Sephardi (ספרדי, Standard Hebrew Səfardi, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄ardî; plural Sephardim: ספרדים, Standard Hebrew Səfardim, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄ardîm) is a Jew original to the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal: ספרד, Standard Hebrew Səfárad, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄áraḏ / Səp̄āraḏ), or whose ancestors were among the Jews expelled from...

The Holocaust

Sephardic synagogue in Bitola, before World War Two.

Two and a half thousand years of Jewish history in Vardar Macedonia (the area roughly corresponding to the borders of the Republic of Macedonia) effectively came to an end with the Holocaust and World War II. Language(s) Hebrew, Ladino, Judæo-Portuguese, Catalanic, Shuadit, local languages Religion(s) Judaism Related ethnic groups Ashkenazi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, other Jewish ethnic divisions, Arabs, Spaniards, Portuguese. ... The synagogue Scolanova Trani in Italy. ... Nickname: Motto: Bitolia, babam Bitolia Location of the city of Bitola (red) within the Republic of Macedonia Coordinates: , Government  - Mayor Vladimir Taleski Area  - City 422. ... This article is becoming very long. ... This article is about the use of the name Macedonia and its derivatives. ... For an explanation of terms related to Macedonia, see Macedonia (terminology). ... For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation). ...

In April 1941, the Bulgarian army entered Vardar Macedonia, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Bulgaria had initially been neutral in World War II, but was forced to become an ally of Nazi Germany in 1941. Bulgaria internal reasons to invade Vardar Macedonia because of the pressure put on the government by the great amount of immigrants from Macedonia who wanted to come back to their home places and rejoin their families . Slavic Macedonians were considered ethnic Bulgarians up to the Balkan wars, and the Macedonian language is still regarded by the Sofia government a Bulgarian dialect. For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... This article is about the use of the name Macedonia and its derivatives. ... Motto: One nation, one king, one country Anthem: Medley of Bože pravde, Lijepa naÅ¡a domovino, and Naprej zastava slave Capital Belgrade Language(s) Serbo-Croato-Slovenian (see: Serbo-Croat and Slovenian) [1] Government Value specified for government_type does not comply King  - 1918-1921 Peter I  - 1921-1934 Alexander... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... This article is about the use of the name Macedonia and its derivatives. ... This article is about the Slavic ethnic group; for the unrelated people of ancient and modern Greece, see Ancient Macedonians and Macedonians (Greek) respectively. ... Combatants  Ottoman Empire Balkan League: Bulgaria Greece Serbia Montenegro Commanders Ottoman Empire: Nizam PaÅŸa, Zeki PaÅŸa, Esat PaÅŸa, Abdullah PaÅŸa, Ali Rıza PaÅŸa Bulgaria: Vladimir Vazov, Vasil Kutinchev, Nikola Ivanov, Radko Dimitriev Greece:Crown Prince Constantine, Panagiotis Danglis, Pavlos Kountouriotis Serbia:Radomir Putnik, Petar... This article is about the Slavic language. ... For dialects of programming languages, see Programming language dialect. ...

On October 4, 1941, the Bulgarian authorities enacted a law prohibited Jews from engaging in any form of commerce, and forcing them to sell their businesses to non-Jews. The Bulgarians then ghettoized the Jews of Bitola, forcing them to move from the Jewish areas of the town, which were relatively affluent, to poorer areas of the town.^[8] is the 277th day of the year (278th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... For the rapper, see Ghetto (rapper). ... Nickname: Motto: Bitolia, babam Bitolia Location of the city of Bitola (red) within the Republic of Macedonia Coordinates: , Government  - Mayor Vladimir Taleski Area  - City 422. ...

Over the course of 1942, the Bulgarian authorities enacted increasingly harsh measures against the Jews under their control in Vardar Macedonia, Thrace and northern Greece, culminating in 1943 with the deportation of Macedonian, Greek and Thracian Jewry to the Nazi extermination camps of Poland. Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the use of the name Macedonia and its derivatives. ... Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak  Thrace (Bulgarian: , Greek: , Attic Greek: ThrāíkÄ“ or ThrēíkÄ“, Latin: , Turkish: ) is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Extermination camps were two types of facilities that Nazi Germany built during World War II for the systematic killing of millions of people in what has become known as the Holocaust. ...

The Bulgarians rounded up the entire Jewish population of Skopje, Bitola and Štip. Although Bulgaria defended Jews with Bulgarian citizenship from Nazi deportation orders, it nevertheless transported non-Bulgarian Jews to their deaths. The Jewish communities of Macedonia, Thrace, northern Greece and areas of Bulgarian-controlled Yugoslavia were almost completely wiped out. There was much harsh treatment before being transported in cattle-cars to Treblinka. A few dozen Bitola Jews managed to avoid deportation, and four escaped from the transit camp; none of the 3,276 Jews of Bitola deported to Treblinka survived ^[9]. In 2003, one Jew remained in the city that had been home to a Sephardic community for more than 400 years. Štip's ancient Jewish community was also completely destroyed. Location of the city of Skopje (green) in Macedonia Country Macedonia Municipality Government  - Mayor Trifun Kostovski Area  - Total 1,854 km² (715. ... Nickname: Motto: Bitolia, babam Bitolia Location of the city of Bitola (red) within the Republic of Macedonia Coordinates: , Government  - Mayor Vladimir Taleski Area  - City 422. ... Jonnabuz (talk) 11:42, 24 May 2005 (UTC) Categories: Possible copyright violations ... National Socialism redirects here. ... Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak  Thrace (Bulgarian: , Greek: , Attic Greek: ThrāíkÄ“ or ThrēíkÄ“, Latin: , Turkish: ) is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in the Latin alphabet, Југославија in Cyrillic; English: South Slavia, or literary The Land of South Slavs) describes three political entities that existed one at a time on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century. ... Treblinka is a small village in the Mazowieckie voivodship (province) of Poland. ... Nickname: Motto: Bitolia, babam Bitolia Location of the city of Bitola (red) within the Republic of Macedonia Coordinates: , Government  - Mayor Vladimir Taleski Area  - City 422. ... Nickname: Motto: Bitolia, babam Bitolia Location of the city of Bitola (red) within the Republic of Macedonia Coordinates: , Government  - Mayor Vladimir Taleski Area  - City 422. ... Treblinka is a small village in the Mazowieckie voivodship (province) of Poland. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In the strictest sense, a Sephardi (ספרדי, Standard Hebrew Səfardi, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄ardî; plural Sephardim: ספרדים, Standard Hebrew Səfardim, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄ardîm) is a Jew original to the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal: ספרד, Standard Hebrew Səfárad, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄áraḏ / Səp̄āraḏ), or whose ancestors were among the Jews expelled from... Jonnabuz (talk) 11:42, 24 May 2005 (UTC) Categories: Possible copyright violations ...

After Vardar Macedonia was liberated in 1944, the remnants of the Jewish community re-gathered in Belgrade, Serbia ^[10] -- only about 140 had survived ^[11]. Most had survived by going into hiding or fighting with the Yugoslav, Jewish or Soviet Partisans ^[12]. Of those transported to the death camps, almost none survived. Most survivors chose to immigrate to Israel, with some returning to Macedonia, and others remaining in Serbia. This article is about the use of the name Macedonia and its derivatives. ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Belgrade (disambiguation). ... Not to be confused with Republika Srpska. ... Yugoslav Partisan Flag The Partisans (lat. ... Jewish partisans were fighters in irregular military groups participating in the Jewish resistance movement against Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. A number of Jewish partisan groups operated across Nazi-occupied Europe, some comprised of a few escapees from the Jewish ghettos or concentration camps, while others... Belorussian guerrillas liquidated, injured and took prisoner some 1. ... For an explanation of terms related to Macedonia, see Macedonia (terminology). ... Not to be confused with Republika Srpska. ...

Today

Today, the Jewish community of the Republic of Macedonia numbers some 200 people. Almost all live in Skopje, with one family in Štip and a single Jew remaining in Bitola ^[13]. For an explanation of terms related to Macedonia, see Macedonia (terminology). ... Location of the city of Skopje (green) in Macedonia Country Macedonia Municipality Government  - Mayor Trifun Kostovski Area  - Total 1,854 km² (715. ... Jonnabuz (talk) 11:42, 24 May 2005 (UTC) Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Nickname: Motto: Bitolia, babam Bitolia Location of the city of Bitola (red) within the Republic of Macedonia Coordinates: , Government  - Mayor Vladimir Taleski Area  - City 422. ...

There is no anti-Semitism in the country, and intermarriage rates among Jews are high^[14]. The community recently (2003^[15]) opened a synagogue, and has a community center in Skopje. The community also maintains ties with Jewish communities in Belgrade and Salonica, while a rabbi travels to Skopje from Belgrade to aid in the conducting of services ^[16]. The community also recently sent, for the first time, a representative to the annual bible quiz in Israel celebrated every year on Israel's independence day^[17]. The Eternal Jew (German:Der ewige Jude): 1937 German poster advertising an antisemitic Nazi movie. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The synagogue Scolanova Trani in Italy. ... Location of the city of Skopje (green) in Macedonia Country Macedonia Municipality Government  - Mayor Trifun Kostovski Area  - Total 1,854 km² (715. ... For other uses, see Belgrade (disambiguation). ... Thessaloniki or Salonica (Greek: ) is Greeces second-largest city and the capital of Macedonia, the largest Region of Greece. ... For the town in Italy, see Rabbi, Italy. ... Location of the city of Skopje (green) in Macedonia Country Macedonia Municipality Government  - Mayor Trifun Kostovski Area  - Total 1,854 km² (715. ... For other uses, see Belgrade (disambiguation). ...

References

Haaretz (הארץ, The Land) is an Israeli newspaper, founded in 1919. ...

Other sources

• History of the Jews in Spain
• Jewish Virtual Library - Macedonia
• "TBI congregants raise funds for synagogue in Macedonia", Tami Bickley, Jewish News of Greater Phoenix
• The Holocaust in Macedonia: Deportation of Monastir Jewry, Mark Cohen, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Remembering the Past - Jewish culture battling for survival in Macedonia, Zhidas Daskalovski
• "Macedonia's Jews battle the odds of survival", Katka Krosnar, Centropa Reports
• "Jewish Yugoslavia", Ruth E Gruber, Our Jerusalem
• "Only 200 strong, Macedonia's Jews celebrate unity and new synagogue", Ruth E Gruber, Jewish World Review

• "Macedonia’s Jewish Community Commemorates the Holocaust, and Embraces the Future", Christopher Deliso, Balkanalysis.com

• "Letter from Macedonia", Christopher Deliso, Moment Magazine