COMPARATIVE OVERVIEW OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT IN CROATIA AND SERBIA UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF WORLD WAR II by Ljiljana Dobrovšak, Haris Dajč

“…It emerged first in Croatia, where attorney Hugo Spitzer founded the Zionist Society in his home city of Osijek and started publishing the Zionist magazine, Židovska smotra, and organised several Zionist congresses (in Osijek, Slavonski Brod, and Zemun) in order to connect Jews not only within Austria-Hungary, but also from the neighbouring Kingdom of Serbia. After the end of the First World War, the centre of the Zionist movement moved from Osijek to Zagreb and Belgrade. …”
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A contribution to the study of the history and architecture of the 'Rosija' Insurance Company building in Belgrade (1904-1908) by Andrić Dunja, Kiproski Sanja

“…Built in the spirit of the Vienna Secession movement, with its height and volumetric characteristics, the edifice embodied the urban development of Terazije and became a recognizable visual topos of the capital of the Kingdom of Serbia. Created through the utilization of modern materials, and as a result of fruitful cooperation between Russian architects and renowned Serbian architect Jovan Ilkić (1857-1917), the palace of the 'Rosija' Insurance Company came to symbolize the modern identity of Belgrade. …”
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