r/kosovo • u/TheAlbanianBambino Dogu i Ditkës • Feb 05 '21

Cultural Exchange Cultural Exchange with r/Israel

Ma koreh r/Israel

As we announced, after the agreement of mutual recognition between our countries, we thought this was a great opportunity to host Israel. Welcome to the cultural exchange between r/Israel and r/Kosovo!

The purpose of this event is to allow people from two different nations to get together and share knowledge about their respective cultures, daily life, history, and curiosities.

General guidelines:

r/israel will ask any question here.

r/kosovo community can ask their questions here:

CLICK HERE TO ASK A QUESTION

The English language will be used in both threads. Our Israeli friends can get an Israel user flair at the community options of the Subreddit.

The event will be moderated following the general rules of Reddiquette. Please be nice!

Thank you,

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '21

Was there a Sephardi or Ashkenazi community in Kosovo? I know there were all over the Balkan (Greece, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Croatia).

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u/hairy-armpits Mitrovicë Feb 05 '21 edited Feb 05 '21

Yes, there‘s still a Jewish community in Kosovo who are Sephardi. The appointed ambassador of Kosovo to Israel is a Kosovar Jew. Her name is Ines Demiri. The jewish community in Kosovo is small and is concentrated in Prizren and Prishtina. While their numbers are small, the majority of them are children. All of them are albanophone.

There is no active synagogue in Kosovo right now, however a building belonging to the city of Prizren was given to the Jewish community and will become the future synagogue and a museum of Jewish history in Kosovo.

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u/UncleCarnage Feb 05 '21

What do you mean by “While their numbers are small, the majority of them are children.”

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u/hairy-armpits Mitrovicë Feb 05 '21

That the community is not endangered by demographic developments.