page_title: History of the Jews in Serbia
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: History of the Jews in Serbia / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Magyar: Halbrohr Tamás tóratekerccsel a kezében, Szabadkán
context_page_description: The history of the Jews in Serbia is some two thousand years old, and predates the arrival of the Serbs. The Jews first arrived in the region during Roman times. The Jewish communities of the Balkans remained small until the late 15th century, when Jews fleeing the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions found refuge in the Ottoman-ruled areas, including Serbia.
  The community flourished and reached a peak of 33,000 before World War II. About two-thirds of Serbian Jews perished in the Holocaust, having been particularly targeted as Hitler sought to punish both ethnic Serbs and Jews for German defeat in World War I. After the war, a great part of the remaining Jewish Serbian population emigrated, chiefly into Israel. In the 2011 census only 787 people declared themselves as Jewish. Today, the Belgrade Synagogue and the Subotica Synagogue, once the fourth largest synagogue building in Europe, are the two in-service synagogues, while the Novi Sad Synagogue has been converted into a cultural art space.
context_section_description: David Albahari, writer
  David Albala, military officer, physician, diplomat, and Jewish community leader
  Albert Bogen (Albert Bógathy; 1882–1961), Serbian-born Austrian Olympic silver medalist saber fencer
  Oskar Danon, composer
  Oskar Davičo, poet
  Filip David, playwright and columnist
  Jelena Đurović, writer, politician and journalist
  Predrag Ejdus, actor
  Vanja Ejdus, actress
  Rahela Ferari, actress
  Henrich-Haim Fingerhut, first radio speaker of Radio Belgrade
  Ivan Ivanji, writer
  Enriko Josif, composer
  Danilo Kiš, writer
  Geca Kon, publisher
  Marko Kon, pop singer
  Gordana Kuić, novelist
  Shaul Ladany, Israeli Olympian athlete
  Tommy Lapid, former Israeli politician of Hungarian extraction, born in Novi Sad
  Sonja Licht, political activist
  Lior Narkis, Israeli singer (mother born in Serbia)
  Izidor Papo, cardiac surgeon, general-colonel of the Yugoslav Army medical unit
  Moša Pijade, politician, painter, art critic and publicist
  Dan Reisinger, Israeli graphic artist
  Seka Sablić, actress
  Erich Šlomović, art collector
  Aleksandar Tišma, writer
  Stanislav Vinaver, writer, poet, translator and journalist
caption: Halbrohr Tamás
exif: {"Image Make": "Canon", "Image Model": "MP250 series", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "600", "Image YResolution": "600", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "MP Navigator EX 3.0", "Image DateTime": "2014:04:18 18:21:06", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image ExifOffset": "210", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "600", "Thumbnail YResolution": "600", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "450", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "6764", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2014:04:18 18:21:06", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2968", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "4160", "EXIF FileSource": "Reflection Print Scanner", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto"}