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Yugoslavia Reported Preparing Curbs on Jews

October 17, 1938
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Jewish circles were perturbed by persistent rumors that the Yugoslav Government intends to pass an anti-Semitic law. Already drafted, the law is said to divide Jews into various categories, distinguishing not only between native and foreign Jews, but introducing a distinction between Jews who lived in Serbia before the war and who participated in the Wars of Liberation, and the new Jews who lived in districts of former Austria-Hungary.

Full rights will reportedly be enjoyed by the Serbian Jews only, while the rights of the other categories will be limited in varying degree.

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