1919–1941Jewish Street
Rákóczi Ferenc Street, leading to the Roman Catholic church
A view down the street toward the twin-spired Roman Catholic church, with shopfronts and awnings along both sides, a parked car mid-street and shoppers on the pavements. The same negative was issued twice: once captioned in Cyrillic and Latin as Jevrejska ulica, and once in Hungarian as II. Rakoczi Ferenc-utca. Both name the same street, which carried the Hungarian name under the occupation. The printing shown here is the Hungarian one.
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
Ujvidék; II. Rákóczi Ferenc-utca
Novi Sad; Jevrejska ulica (on the other printing)
- Date
- 1919–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25292, 19.83941
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2355 × 1510 px
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