The investigation on the history of the Yugoslav and Macedonian Jews between the two world wars
was developed through a number of researches in the archives in Macedonia Serbia Greece and
Israel. The project itself was based on three levels and approaches from an international
position of the Jews after WWI the regional within the history of the Yugoslav Jewry and
the position of the Sephardic Jewry on a local level i.e. in Macedonia itself. The
international context required a use of international acts brought in regard to minority rights
protection after the WWI during the Paris Conference and the establishment of the Geneva
System. The second level observed the position of the Macedonian Sephards within the overall
Yugoslav Jewry which was consisted of Ashkenazim Sephardim as well as of the Orthodox Jews
as a separate group. The third level deals with the everyday life of the Macedonian Sephards
from 1912 to 1941 as well as their social cultural political and economic development in one
micro environment. The inter-ethnic relations which were part of the political social and
Jewish reality in Macedonia were also investigated in this study.
