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contributed to the commercial and humanitarian development of the country. It was not<br />

known whether the Ban Šokčević encouraged commercial activities of Jews in the Military<br />

Border Zone but it was known that the Jews could stay there trading for several days. After<br />

the Austrian-Hungarian Agreement as of 1867 the Law was enacted by which the equal civil<br />

rights for the Jews in Austria and Hungary were declared while Croatia still didn’t want to put<br />

the Law in practice. 140 It was one of the reasons why the Jews settled mostly in the area of<br />

Bosanski Brod.<br />

The Jewish community in Bosanski Brod became important only after the Jewish<br />

Civilian Equality in 1873 as well as abolishing borders and especially after its annexation to<br />

Croatia in 1881. 141 At the time of the Statute Confirmation and the Jewish community<br />

establishment in Bosanski Brod, there were 16 Jewish families in Bosanski Brod on a given<br />

day of September 28, 1873. 142 The Jews didn’t have a Synagogue at the beginning and they<br />

were gathering in the house of Jacob Kona who gave that house with land to the Jewish<br />

Religious Community in 1880. Building the Synagogue in that site was his wish. The building<br />

of the synagogue lasted four years from 1895 to 1899. The project for the synagogue was<br />

designed by Müller- the Technician and built in the "Moorish style"; the construction works<br />

were made by Königsberg and Deutsch from Zagreb for with 30000 forints. The Synagogue<br />

was destroyed during the bombing in <strong>1941.</strong> The members of the Committee for the<br />

Construction of the Synagogue were: Jacob Kohn – President, Marko Grosmann – Vice<br />

president and Max Kohn – Treasurer. In the same year of 1899, the rules were established for<br />

the Jewish Religious Community in Brod and such rules were written in both languages -<br />

German and Croatian. 143<br />

At the end of 19th century, there were over 500 people in the Jewish community in the<br />

area of Brod. 144 The Jewish families were coming to Brod not only from Hungarian districts<br />

but also from Vojvodina. Those were Ashkenazi families and after the annexation of Bosnia<br />

in 1878 some Sephardic families were coming from Bosnia (Merkadić, Tolentino, Albahari,<br />

Pesah). 145<br />

According to the "Nationality and Religious structure of the population in Croatia"<br />

270 Jews lived in Brod in 1880 In the year of 1890 there were 287 Jews; 373 Jews lived in<br />

1900, 515 Jews lived in 1910. 146<br />

Trade was the most important branch for the Jews in Brod (in 1879, Brod’s Rabbi<br />

Mogan opened a Private Trade School where many famous marine tradesmen were trained<br />

and the School existed up to 1892). 147 The following were engaged in trade business: G.<br />

Grossman, J. Goldstein, J. Grünwald, L. Stein, I. Sidon, D. Rosenberg, J. Adler, M. Sessler,<br />

H. Kuhn, J. Morway, D. Dottermann, L. Spitzer, Ž. Reich, J. Volb, G. Glückmann, J.<br />

Neimann, Š. Grün, M. Preist, M. Weiss, M. Jellinek, M. Rothmüller, Sellinger, W. Schier,<br />

Grünbaum, Bayer etc. Grossmann, V. Fürst, Schllinger, Müller, Neumann. The Jews owned<br />

alcohol still rooms (J. Kohn and S. Kopp), steam saw mills (Kohn, Merkadić, S. Stern ) and<br />

brick works (Merkadić).<br />

140 T. Šalić, Židovi u Vinkovcima/the Jews in Vinkovci<br />

141 Mirko Marković Brod-kulturno povijesna monografija/Brod – Cultural Historical Monograph,, Slavonski<br />

Brod, 1994.<br />

142 Slavko Mirković, Posljednje počivalište brodskih Židova/ The Jews from Brod - Their Last Resting Place,<br />

Bilten, Bulletin, 15, June-July, 1990<br />

143 M. Švob, Židovi u Hrvatskoj/the Jews in Croatia<br />

144 S. U. Švendeman, Krhotine iz povijesti židovske zajednice uSlavonskom Brodu/ Parts from the History of the<br />

Jewish Community in Slavonski Brod<br />

145 Stribor U. Schwendemann, Prilozi za povijest židovske zajednice u Brodu /Contributions to the History of the<br />

Jewish Community in Brod / Brodski list, December 5, 1996 Slavonski Brod,<br />

146 M.R. Horvat, Slavonski Brod, 30, stated that 588 Jews lived in Brod.<br />

147 Stribor U. Schwendemann, the Development of Schools in Brod, Brod i okolica/Brod and its Surroundings,<br />

Vinkovci, 1998<br />

130

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