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Haim Estreya Ovadya
Haim Estreya Ovadya (25 December 1922 – 26 August 1944) was a Macedonian Jewish communist who joined the Yugoslav Partisans after the German invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941 during World War II. Life Haim Estreya Ovadya was born in Bitola, Yugoslavia (now in North Macedonia) on 25 December 1922 to a very poor Jewish family. She was sponsored by the Women's International Zionist Organization to go to Belgrade find work or receive an education in 1938. She joined the Workers' Movement faction of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) and was active in its women's sections. After the bombing of Belgrade that began the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis Powers on 6 April 1941, she returned to Bitola where she was forced into a Jewish ghetto imposed by the Bulgarians in occupied Macedonia. She then became a supporter of the nascent communist Yugoslavian partisans while organizing meets of Jewish women in the ghetto to discuss women's rights. Ovadya formally became a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bitola
Bitola (; mk, Битола ) is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba, Nidže, and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges, north of the Medžitlija-Níki border crossing with Greece. The city stands at an important junction connecting the south of the Adriatic Sea region with the Aegean Sea and Central Europe, and it is an administrative, cultural, industrial, commercial, and educational centre. It has been known since the Ottoman period as the "City of Consuls", since many European countries had consulates in Bitola. Bitola, known during the Ottoman Empire as Manastır or Monastir, is one of the oldest cities in North Macedonia. It was founded as Heraclea Lyncestis in the middle of the 4th century BC by Philip II of Macedon. The city was the last capital of the First Bulgarian Empire (1015-1018) and the last capital of Ottoman Rumelia, from 1836 to 1867. According to the 2002 census, Bit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Ghetto
In the Jewish diaspora, a Jewish quarter (also known as jewry, ''juiverie'', ''Judengasse'', Jewynstreet, Jewtown, or proto- ghetto) is the area of a city traditionally inhabited by Jews. Jewish quarters, like the Jewish ghettos in Europe, were often the outgrowths of segregated ghettos instituted by the surrounding Christian authorities. A Yiddish term for a Jewish quarter or neighborhood is ''"Di yiddishe gas"'' ( yi, די ייִדישע גאַס ), or "The Jewish quarter." While in Ladino, they are known as '' maalé yahudí'', meaning "The Jewish quarter". Many European and Near Eastern cities once had a historical Jewish quarter and some still have it. The history of the Jews in Iraq is documented from the time of the Babylonian captivity c 586 BC. Iraqi Jews constitute one of the world's oldest and most historically significant Jewish communities. Jewish quarters in Europe existed for a number of reasons. In some cases, Christian authorities wished to segregate Jew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
