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MONTENEGRO
Montenegro was formerly part of Yugoslavia; it has long been closely associated with Serbia. This mountainous territory has little significant Jewish history and no modern Jewish community to speak of.
The few known or suspected sites have been identified by Ivan Ceresnjes [Čerešnješ], former president of the Jewish community of Sarajevo, and a major contributor to knowledge of Jewish heritage in other parts of the former Yugoslavia; other sites are listed in Gruber 2007.
Montenegro has no known former or active synagogues.
Between four and seven Jewish cemeteries are believed to exist: Podgorica (Classical and later Duklja or Doclea, and also the site of a fourth or fifth-century Jewish grave, found in the 1960s), Kotor, Budva and nearby Herceg Novi are the most likely locations. Zabljak [Žabljak], Bar and Virpazar are also possible sites. The claimed tomb of the false Messiah Shabbatei Zevi, known among Muslims as Mehamed Effendi, is in the coastal town of Ulcinj, though the owners do not permit access.
There are at least three Holocaust sites. They are the Gestapo prison in Podgorica, the Campo Mamula concentration camp, which was run by the Italians, and possibly the Bogdanov Kraj prison in Cetinje.
There is no recognised Jewish community in the country.
Gruber, Ruth Ellen.
Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe (new edition), Washington: National Geographic, 2007.
Ivan Čerešnješ, personal communication, 2007
History of the Jews in Montenegro (accessed February 2007)
(Updated February 2008)
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