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Antisemitizam u SFRJ

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Dragoš Kalajić and Aleksandar Lončar

Laslo Sekelj

U nacionalnom šarenilu nekadašnje Jugoslavije, Jevreji su predstavljali jedan sasvim mali kamenčić. Nakon tri talasa iseljavanja za Izrael 1948-1951, koje obuhvata, zajedno sa kasnijim individualnim iseljava­njima, oko 8 000 osoba, broj Jevreja koji su ostali procenjuje se između pet i sedam hiljada. Broj članova jevrejskih opština procenjuje se na manje od 5 000 (od kojih oko 15% čine nejevrejski članovi uže porodice). (Perić, 1972; Demographic…1986) Kada je reč o fenomenu antisemi­tizma u periodu 1945-1991, od komunističkog osvajanja vlasti do raspada države, postoje tri perioda: (1) 1945-1967: period bez javnih manifestacija antisemitizma; (2) 1967-1988: antisemitizam pod krinkom anticionizma; (3) Od 1988. do danas, “republikanizacija” i funkcionalizacija Jevreja;

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Antisemitism in SFRY

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Dragoš Kalajić i Aleksandar Lončar

Laslo Sekelj

Jews make up a tiny segment of the former Yugoslavia’s ethnic mosaic. Ac­cording to the estimates, there are between 5,000 and 7,000 Jews in (former) Yugoslavia. These are the figures following three waves of communal emigra­tion to Israel in the period 1948-51 (around 8,000 left, including individual migrants). Local communities, members of the Union of the Jewish Commu­nities of Yugoslavia (until 1991), have altogether less than 5,000 members of which 15 per cent are closely related to Jews (mixed marriages) but were not born as Jews.[1]

From the time the Communists came to power until the final disinte­gration of the Yugoslav state (1945-89), three different stages of antisemitism can be distinguished: (1) 1945-67, a period characterized by its lack of any public display of antisemitism; (2) 1967-88, a period of antisemitism disguised as anti-Zionism; (3) 1988 to date, a period of ‘republicanization’ and the ma­nipulation of Jews.

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