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Peter I ( Serbian Cyrillic: Петар I Карађорђевић, romanized : Petar I Кarađorđević; 11 July [ O.S. 29 June] 1844 – 16 August 1921) was King of Serbia from 15 June 1903 to 1 December 1918. On 1 December 1918, he became King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and he held that title until his death three years later.
Jul 7, 2024 · Peter I was the king of Serbia from 1903, the first strictly constitutional monarch of his country. In 1918 he became the first king of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later called Yugoslavia).
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Prior to the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s, approximately 2,500 Jews lived in Serbia, mostly in Belgrade. The Jews of Serbia lived relatively peacefully in Yugoslavia between World War II and the 1990s, when the end of the Cold War caused the breakup of Yugoslavia and ensuing civil wars.
Peter I Karadjordjević, King of Serbia (1844-1921), or Prince Peter, was a grandson of Petrović Karadjordje (1768-1817), a leader of the First Serbian Insurrection against the Ottomans (1804-1813).
An idiosyncratic essay on the social history of Habsburg Jews from the 1670 expulsion of Viennese Jewry until the end of World War I, focusing on modernization, secularization, embourgeoisement, and especially assimilation. The author examines “the Jewish core of the Habsburg bourgeoisie,” seeing it as a window onto the “Imperial bourgeoisie.”
The issue of the status of Jews in Serbia (within its current borders) in the nine- teenth and twentieth centuries is closely connected to different historical experiences and the dynamic of political and social processes in the country.
Claims that Serbian collaborators were directly involved in the execution of Jews was made by a number of Croatian writers and publicists in a series of propagandist pieces of quasi-historical writing.
