Kesher Talk

Jews in odd places: Croatia: On Rosh Hashanna, the Jews of Zagreb, Croatia, celebrated the opening of the Lea Deutsch school, named after a Jewish girl who was killed during the Holocaust.

The institution is the first Jewish school to open in the former Yugoslavia since World War II.

The Jewish Elementary School in Croatia operated from 1841 until 1941, when the Holocaust began in Croatia. It never reopened.

The Zagreb community has about 1,500 members. Many of the children are the products of mixed marriages, and most of the children in the new Jewish school have only one Jewish grandparent. A few are the children of Israelis living in Croatia.

posted by William @ 11/11/2003 06:45:07 PM