History of the Jews in Montenegro

There is a small organized Jewish community in Montenegro. The 2007 Montenegrin Statistical Yearbook lists 12 Jews in the country, spread across nine towns.[1] There is little evidence of a significant historic Jewish presence in the country.[2]

In February 2012, the Montenegrin Prime Minister Igor Lukšić signed an agreement with the Montenegrin Jewish community to grant official recognition of Jews as a minority in Montenegro. The agreement also established Judaism as the country's fourth official religion, along with Roman Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, and Islam.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ 2007 Statistical Yearbook of Montenegro, p238
  2. ↑ "Antisemitism and Jewish Identity in Serbia after the 1991 Collapse of the Yugoslav State", Laslo Sekelj
  3. ↑ "Jewish history of Montenegro". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 2012-11-16.

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