Danon Dr Jakov - Jadovno 1941.

a request for the continuation of juristic studies, in Vienna, Lion and Paris, to the city district
office in Banja Luka. 63 The great merits for the promotion of Sephard movement in B. Luka
and the foundation of Vienna branch of Esperance in Banja Luka in 1925 belonged to Vienna
student Dr. Isaak Braco Poljokan, a great Jewish national worker from Banja Luka. He
dedicated his life working across Vienna Jewish society "Esperance" and Vienna Jewish
paper "Sephard’s World", and the editor of Sarajevo "Jewish Life" and "Jewish Voice" to the
union of Jewish people on the world’s scale. He studied law in Grac, Vienna and Paris, and
received doctorate in Sorbonna, having defended the thesis "La crime de Guerre. " His close
associates in Sarajevo were Dr. Vita Kajon and Dr. Kalmi Baruh, with whom he started the
mentioned Sephard’s papers, with the fact that "Jewish Life" was being published from 28 th
March of 1923 to 1 st December of 1927, after which "Jewish Voice" was being published from
1 st January of 1928 to 15 th April of 1941. He was writing travels emotionally encroaching to
into psychological fight of self as a man toward the human injustice, picturing, with that, the
psychology of people and the history of its people. Politically almost undecided, yet he joined
to the opposition, worker’s, revolutionary movement, what, after the departure to Split,
brought to the partizans, in which ranks he was killed during the Drvar landing. 64
Hadzi Isak P. called Kučo (born in 1855 in B. Luka) the son of Salamon, who had
the sons Abraham and Salamon and a daughter Mazalta. He had his building across the
Šehova mosque (hotel Palace) from 1933, in which the shops of mixed goods, and on 1 st
March 1899 he founded the society for the trade with mixed goods Poljokan Isaak & Sons.
On the top of that building there was a cupola, with the David’s star, which was crushed
during Alliance bombing in 1944. The older Banja Luka’s citizens remember that there was a
great linden before the shop, by which the shop was called Poljokan under linden. He
belonged to the group of greatest tradesmen in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a long series of
years he was the president of the Board of the first Banja Luka’s savings bank. 65 He lived in
Jukićeva St. next to the very Jewish Cultural Center with synagogue. He was the owner of
famous Poljokan Park in Banja Luka, which is even now mentioned by both the young and
old.
Abraham Isaka Poljokan (1875 in B. Luka), tradesman, married, had the daughters
Rachel, Sofija and Josipa, who attended Higher Girl’s school in Banja Luka, and lived with
parents in Albrecht St. He was one of the founders of the Bank for trade and turnover d. d.
Banja Luka.
Salamon Isaak Poljokan, born in Banja Luka (15.04.1878 – 30.08.1938), a
prominent tradesman and citizen, The son of Isaak and mother Mazalta, born Baruh. He was
married to Erna Poljokan, the daughter of Rafo Poljokan, with whom he had sons Izak and
Rafael, and the daughter Mela, who married to Dr. Jašo Albal in the synagogue Bet Israel in
Belgrade, 66 in 1935. Salamon Poljokan was the president of Jewish God-respected community
of Sephard’s rite from 1932 to his sudden death in 1938. The ownership over the Society
Isaak Poljokan and Sons was taken over by Izak and Rafael.
It was enlarged the number of Jews in Banja Luka after the forming of the Kingdom of
SCS, because of migration of Aškenas families, and mostly because of the growing number of
anti-Semitism in Europe, and that there was almost none economic branch where the Jews
were not represented. It was opened a great number of specilized shops for craft’s and trade’s
services. They were in Gospodska St. and wider:
1. Watchmaker-jeweler Moric Gotlib
2. Pharmacy Robert Bramer
3. Cadik Alkalaj, agency shop
63 ARSBL, OSBL, Registre of foreign firms No.: 8, 882 and 1500; Bosnisher Bote 1908.; Sarajevo newspaper
No.: 37/1911 and 29/1912
64 ARSBL, OOBL, AJ 28-5; UPBL, br. 472/1921
65 ARSBL, OSBL, Br. Fi-65/1912; National unity No.:1/1926
66 The Jewish Almanah, Ph.D. A. Pinto, SJOJ, 1965/67
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