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8.1.2021. 16:08
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Chief Rabbi: Montenegro is Thankfully Freedom From anti-Semitism

Photo:Pierre Lavi ;  Samir Kajosevic, Podgorica, BIRN, January 8, 2021

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Antisemitism has never taken root in Montenegro, says Chief Rabbi






 
Hostility to Jews has never been a state ideology in Montenegro, and so has never taken root among citizens, Luciano Mose Prelevic tells BIRN. Montenegro is one of few countries in the world where anti-Semitism does not manifest itself in public at all, the Chief Rabbi of Montenegro and Croatia, Luciano Mose Prelevic, told BIRN, stressing the community’s deep historical roots in the tiny country.

Neprijateljski odnos prema Židovima nije nikada bio državna ideologije u Crnoj Gori i nije nikada  se  ukorijenio među građanima.Crna Gora je jedna od nekoliko zemalja u svijetu gdje se uopće ne manifestira antisemitizam rekao je glavni rabin Crne Gore i Hrvatske Luciano Moše Prelević za časopis Birn, naglašavajući povijesnu povezanost zajednice u toj maloj državi.

66- godišnji rabin koji je imao oca Crnogorca i majku Židovku, a služi i u Židovskoj zajednici u Hrvatskoj kao glavni rabin u Zagrebu.

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Montenegro is an unusually multi-confessional and multi-ethnic country. Of its 625,266 inhabitants, 45 per cent declared themselves Montenegrins in the last census, 28.7 per cent said they were Serbs and most of the rest declared themselves Bosniaks, Albanians or Croats.Jews barely figure. According to the 2011 census, the Jewish community counts a mere 110 people, although the World Jewish Congress estimates 400 to 500 Jews now live in the country.



The small community, one of the youngest Jewish communities in the world, having been officially registered in July 2011, has no synagogue. The World Jewish Congress says only about 10 per cent of Jews in Montenegro are actively involved in the community.
But despite their tiny number, they are active in different fields, especially in organizing the annual “Mahar Conference”, a central meeting point for Jewish communities in the Balkan region.
The conference aims to prevent the assimilation of Jews in the region and establish closer cooperation between its Jewish communities.

In January 2012, the Jewish community and the government signed the Act on Mutual Relations whereby Judaism was recognized as the fourth official religion of Montenegro.

Prelevic said the act guarantees Jews in Montenegro full autonomy in regulating their religious and national relations to the extent that they do not conflict with the law.

“The Jewish community has an excellent relationship with state institutions. We receive a certain budget on an annual level. And, as well as recognizing Judaism as an official religion, the state has allocated land for the construction of a synagogue in the capital, Podgorica,” Prelevic explained.

The government in 2013 gave the Jewish community land on a 99-year lease to build the country’s first synagogue when the Jewish community was led by Yasha Alfandari.