O knjizi
Važnost predmeta koji se obrađuje u ovoj knjizi jest, s jedne strane gotovo svakodnevna prisutnost u javnosti, a s druge strane još uvijek nedostatna istraženost. Zbog toga se autorica odlučila na cjelovit prikaz teme koja obuhvaća: povijesne uvjete naseljavanja Židova u Hrvatsku, razvoj njihovih zajednica, doprinos društvenom, gospodarskom i kulturnom razvitku sredine te demografske promjene s osobitim obzirom na Holokaust i poslijeratne migracije.
Izvornost djela očituje se kroz rekonstrukciju gotovo svih židovskih zajednica koje su dosad bile utemeljene u Hrvatskoj s osobitim obzirom na popise žrtava i preživjelih u Drugom svjetskom ratu.
Ti podaci znanstveno obrađeni i prezentirani predstavljaju značajan iskorak prema znanstvenom rasvjetljavanju ovog problema.
U usporedbi s drugim djelima, ova knjiga izbjegava politiziranje i polemiziranje kao i grube procjene o broju stradalih i preživjelih Židova u Drugom svjetskom ratu, već se zasniva na popisima osoba s imenom i prezimenom. S obzirom na obuhvat popisa, ovo je «knjiga živih» a ne samo mrtvih, kako je dosad često bio slučaj u obradbi
židovskih zajednica.
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The importance of the subject of this book is in one way ever present to us through the media, and in another way still not yet well enough researched. For this reason the author decided to present a compete study of the Jewish presence in Croatia. It includes: historical conditions, the development of Jewish communities, their contribution to the social, economic and cultural development of the piaces where they settled, demographic changes with particularly attention to the Holocaust and postwar emigration.
The authenticity of the work is shown through the reconstruction of almost every Jewish communitv which has until now existed in Croatia with particiilar attention to the victims and those who died in or survived the Second World War.
The scholarly way in which this information is presented and elaborated is a step forward in the scientific approach to this problem.
In contrast to other works this book avoids ali politics, polemics and approximate assessment of the numbers who were killed in or survived the War but relies on Hsts of persons with name and family name. Because of the wide range of the Hsts this is a «book of the living» and not only of the dead as is so often the čaše in the study of Jewish communities.
