Abstract
Zemun is an old Central European town on the right bank of the Danube River, today one of the boroughs of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. There has been a small Jewish community in Zemun dating back to the mid-18th century. Some of the Jews who lived in Zemun in the 19th century contributed to the emergence of Zionism. This paper presents new archival information about Zemun’s Jewish quarter including an analysis of the Zemun synagogue as well as various hermeneutic explanations of its urban and architectural development. Previous analyses of this area of Zemun have focused on external and morphological characteristics of its religious architecture but failed to explain its conceptual, historical, socio-political and religious context. This paper will cover these new elements as well as establish a basis for understanding this part of the old urban core of Zemun in relation to the significant personalities who lived there and the important ideas they developed.
Highlights
In the Roman times, Zemun was known as Taurunum, but by the mid-9th century, Slavs moved in and bestowed it with the name Zemun which it has maintained until the present time
Towards the end of the Middle Ages, Zemun was controlled by the Hungarians and when Belgrade came under Turkish control in 1521, so did Zemun
Jews moved to Zemun after the Austrian retreat from Belgrade and Serbia in 1739, 1739, when when after after more than years of Austro-Turkish wars, the border was established along the
Summary
Whenever the Sava and Danube formed its border, Zemun progressed as a border town and trading center. Jews moved to Zemun after the Austrian retreat from Belgrade and Serbia in 1739, 1739, when when after after more than years of Austro-Turkish wars, the border was established along the. The most important sources of Zemun’s early urbanism are maps preserved in the collection of local museum in These the local museum in Zemun and the ones housed at the Vienna War Archives P. 133).According to archival documents at the Zemun Magistrate According to archival documents at the Zemun Magistrate (where the names of Jews who settled there are listed), all of them moved to Zemun from Belgrade in 1739.
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