1920s–1930sJewish Street
A Hand-Tinted View Down Jewish Street from the Corner
A hand-tinted postcard of the street, taken from the open corner at its head. A single-deck tram stands at the left beside a park tree and a lamp standard; on the right a heavy public building runs down the pavement in giant pilasters and arched windows, with shops and awnings beyond it and the street narrowing into the distance. The roadway is full of people on foot, women in long skirts and men in hats, with no motor traffic at all. The caption is lettered in Serbian Cyrillic and Latin and names the street Jevrejska, the name it took after 1918, where the same street appears on Austro-Hungarian cards as Rákóczi Ferenc utca.
About this place
The street of the Jewish quarter, running from the old centre towards Futoška. The synagogue and the Jewish community house stand on it at numbers 9 and 11, the third synagogue built on that ground. The tram ran along it, and the shopfronts on both sides put it among the busiest trading streets in the town. Rákóczi Ferenc street is the Hungarian-era name of today's Jevrejska street, which runs west from Liberty Square through what had been the city's Jewish quarter since the late 18th century. It commemorates Ferenc II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against Habsburg rule between 1703 and 1711, and postcards published in the 1900s and in 1916 print the name in Hungarian and German alike. The street changed name repeatedly: Jevrejska until the 1930s, then Kralja Petra II, Rákóczi Ferenc again during the Hungarian occupation of 1941 to 1944, and Ulica JNA from 1944 until the name Jevrejska was restored. The postcard view looks east along the street toward the red brick neo-Gothic Name of Mary Church on Liberty Square, with a tram of the line that ran here from 1911 in the distance.
On the card
Јеврејска улица — Jevrejska ulica.
Jewish Street.
- Date
- 1920s–1930s
- Coordinates
- 45.25292, 19.83941
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 586 × 604 px
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