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General Category => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: malchut israel on July 24, 2011, 10:58:07 AM

Title: shalom jtf
Post by: malchut israel on July 24, 2011, 10:58:07 AM

i am a new member, coming from zagreb, croatia. female, jewish, religious zionist. my nick comes from revizionist newspaper published in the kingdom of yugoslavia, "malchut jisrael"

Title: Re: shalom jtf
Post by: Zelhar on July 24, 2011, 11:23:02 AM

Hi

Title: Re: shalom jtf
Post by: Lisa on July 24, 2011, 03:13:48 PM

Welcome to JTF. 

How many Jews are there in Croatia today?  What's it like for Jews there?

Title: Re: shalom jtf
Post by: Confederate Kahanist on July 24, 2011, 06:19:19 PM

Welcome to JTF!!

Title: Re: shalom jtf
Post by: Yaakov Mendel on July 26, 2011, 04:51:28 AM

Shalom and welcome to JTF.
You will notice that this is a very pro-Serb organization. Since you come from Croatia, what's your take on this ?

Title: Re: shalom jtf
Post by: mord on July 26, 2011, 06:34:53 AM

Welcome

Title: Re: shalom jtf
Post by: malchut israel on July 26, 2011, 04:17:50 PM

I noticed it is a very pro-Serb, yep. But I am Jewish not Serbian or Croatian. However I don't like Jews being a tennis ball in disputes between Serbs and Croats. I saw some of this behavior here as well.

As far as the number of the Jews in Croatia, we have 2 separate statistics - there are around 1200 members of various Jewish communities (and members can be those who have at least one Jewish grandparent) and in the census of 2001, there were little bit more than 600 Jews that claimed being Jewish by nationality and a bit more than 400 claimed to be Jewish by religion. 

In ex Yugoslavia, similar is in Serbia, in Bosnia even less, and all the other states have each less than 100 Jews left, excluding Montenegro (well, maybe some Russian Jews settled in).

Title: Re: shalom jtf
Post by: Yaakov Mendel on July 26, 2011, 04:24:07 PM

Quote from: malchut israel on July 26, 2011, 04:17:50 PM

I am Jewish not Serbian or Croatian.

Absolutely. That is what matters. Good to have you with us.