Jewish Art on the Territorry of Serbia and Yugoslavia as Mirrored through the Jewish Press, 1881-1941

Although numerous traces of Jewish creativity in all aspects of the arts have sporadically been recorded ever since the time of Ottoman rule in Serbia, an identification and systematization of Jewish periodicals published on the territory of Serbia and Yugoslavia between the two world wars, from 1881 to 1941, has been published only recently. This opens up the possibility of a broad assessment of Jewish contribution to the formation and development of the Serbian and later the Yugoslav art scene in the mentioned period. It also contributes to our knowledge of the different strata of cultural life of which Jewish culture was generally an integral part as well as of the cultural events which took place on the territory of a complex multinational and multi-confessional state. A comparative analysis of thematic frameworks and modes of exposition in both Jewish and Serbian i.e. Yugoslav periodicals will indicate the main currents and methods of interpretation of art at an exceptionally important moment at the close of Romanticism and on the eve of Modernism.