1937–1938Jewish Street
A carter waiting outside Stojacic the tailor
A white horse in full harness stands in the road on worn cobbles, hitched to a long flat dray with heavy spoked wheels, its shafts and traces taut and the driver's seat empty. Behind it the ground floor of a plastered building runs the width of the frame. A painted board over the shopfront carries the tailor's name in Cyrillic capitals with a smaller line of trade description beneath. To the left a doorway with a carved surround, a house number plate, and a small enamel sign naming a second business. Through the open shop door and the windows beyond, framed pictures and hanging goods are visible, with a woman and two men standing in the further doorway and a bicycle propped against the wall. A man in a suit and hat walks out of the frame at the right. The print is scalloped at the edges and creased across one corner.
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
СТЕВАН СТОЈАЧИЋ
ЦИВИЛНИ И ВОЈНИ КРОЈАЧ
Богичевић Зорка, женска кројачица
Stevan Stojacic, civil and military tailor.
Zorka Bogicevic, ladies' dressmaker.
- Date
- 1937–1938
- Coordinates
- 45.25292, 19.83941
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 1440 × 1006 px
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