Danon Dr Jakov - Jadovno 1941.

JEWISH COMMUNITY OF SANSKI MOST
Sanski Most is settled in the valley of the river Sana on the southwest of Bosanska
Krajina. During the Turkish period, the provincial town Vakuf (the property of Muslim rel.
community) Sana, a fortress of Turkish military on the crossroad of the roads between the
center of Bosanski pashadon of Banja Luka, Dalmatia and Posavina. The agricultural place
that became lively just by the coming of Austro-Hungarian, in the trade sense, and exactly
because of that crossroad it shanged its name into Sanski Most. As in all places of Bosnia and
Herzegovina the inhabitans were mainly illiterate, the clothes was of domestic production,
from sheepskin coat, nickers and shirts from coarse fabric and hemp from handiwork, and the
houses simple, hearth and the room for sleeping. Situation on economic plan was changing
with difficulties and feebly. People lived in poverty. There was no electric power in Sanski
Most. The first railroad on the relation Sanski Most-Srnetica was built just in 1912 by
inocapitalist Austro-Hungarian authority, because of the further exploitation of wood on these
areas.
There is no concrete data on the coming of the Jews in this mild, beautiful and, above
all, agricultural area, and therefore, it is easy to assume from that that their primary coming
was more the coming of them as the tradesmen-peddlers, who were dealing with rooming
during the Ottoman Empire, not until the second half of 19 th century. In "Bosnian Voice" for
1914, it was said that: Sanski Most, before the World War I, in 1914 had had 2.234 residents,
out of that 1.249 Muslims, 679 Serbs, 249 Croats, 41 Spanish Jews, 14 Aškenas Jews, 1
Evangelist. On one bank the Jews, Serbs and Croats were living, and on the other the
Muslims. Therefore it is clear to conclude that, on these areas, before the Austro-Hungarian
occupation, Sephard’s Jewish families, however in a small number, were living. Officially,
still, during the occupation in 1878, and by the development of the trade roads, they were
moving in Sanski Most from the direction of Bihać, Prijedor and Banja Luka, at firts
individually, and then the families of new, old Sephard families Mevorah, Albahari, Altarac,
Atijas, Baruh, Finci, Gaon, Hason, Hiršman, Levi, Kabiljo, Montiljo, Šabataj, Papo, as well as
many others, which were simply giving a special trade stamp to that small Bosnian town on
the banks of the river Sana.
Beside Otto Goldeberger, in Sanski Most, there were also living two Aškenas families,
Reich and Vidman. By further development of trade roads, not until the establishment of
Austro-Hungarian authority, they were appearing more and more, primarely in the domain of
the tradesmen of mixed goods and small craftsmen and bankers, and living exclusively in
Sanski Most, as a town population, however, it was mentioned in the historical data that there
were two Jewish families with their properties, living the place Bjeline near Sanski Most.
Those trade and craft shops were mainly held by the Sephards, as a part of domestic
traditional inheritage, while the state clerks, whom there were a small number, were the
migrants Aškenas. All Jewish families had patriarchal upbringing, and were keeping track
on the respecting of micva /heb. commandments/ and ketubahs, marrige contracts, and what
brought to the respecting of parents and older ones by the younger generation, which were not
missing in the spirit of time of twelve Jewish families in Sanski Most.
City 1895. 1910. 1914. 1941. Killed 2009.
Sanski Most 6 38 55 79 95% 0
That was creating harmonious atmosphere within the Jewish population, which, on all
lines, was functioning as an entirety and had a friendly relation towards the townsmen. In
their Sanski Most, because of their small number (if there was Minjana) there was not built
synagogue for Kerijat(h)aTorra for Šaharit, morning prayer, because it was written in Torra:
to "Vajaškem Avraam Baboker" or "and Avram awake in the morning" (Moses b. I 2293) for
Minha gedola, a great afternoon prayer from 12 to 30 hours until the sunset, and little later
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