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The history of the Jews in Serbia is some two thousand years old. The Jews first arrived in the region during Roman times. The Jewish communities of the Balkans remained small until the late 15th century, when Jews fleeing the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions found refuge in the Ottoman-ruled areas, including Serbia.
"Serbia was the only country outside Poland and the Soviet Union where all Jewish victims were killed on the spot without deportation, and was the first country after Estonia to be declared "Judenfrei", a term used by the Nazis during the Holocaust to denote an area free of all Jews."
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The Belgrade Synagogue (Serbian: Beogradska sinagoga), officially the Sukkat Shalom Synagogue (Serbian: Београдска синагога), is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in central Belgrade, near Obilićev Venac Square and central high street Knez Mihailova, in Serbia.
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The Jewish Historical Museum was founded in 1948. [6] The Federation of Jewish Communities had the intention to establish a museum to cover some 2,000 years of history from the earliest history of Belgrade. [7] In 2005, the museum donated a thematic collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project Division.
In 2006, it was split into the separate countries of: Montenegro and Serbia. Kosovo is part of the former Yugoslavia. History of the Jews in Yugoslavia see: History of the Jews in Bosnia and Herzegovina. History of the Jews in Croatia. History of the Jews in Kosovo. History of the Jews in North Macedonia. History of the Jews in Montenegro.
Many of the Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula during the Spanish Inquisition settled in the Ottoman Empire, leaving behind, at the wake of Empire, large Sephardic communities in South-East Europe: mainly in Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.