Jelena Đurović Explained

Birth Date:1973 7, df=y
Occupation:journalist, writer, political activist

Jelena Đurovic (also transliterated as Djurović; Serbian Cyrillic: Јелена Ђуровић|script=cyrillic; born 13 July 1973) is a Montenegrin[1] journalist, writer and political activist of a Jewish-Montenegrin origin, based between Podgorica, Montenegro and Belgrade, Serbia.[2] Jelena was a founder and Vice President of the Jewish Community of Montenegro.[3] [4] She was the closest associate of the president of the Jewish Community of Montenegro, late Jasha Alfandari.[5] Alfandari and Đurović collaborated with major umbrella Jewish organisations [6] until his sudden death on 12 July 2018.[7] Currently, she is a Chairwoman of heterodox lobbying and think tank organisation OJC SEE - Organization for Jewish Cooperation in Southeastern Europe and a member of the Board of the Montenegrin national council in Belgrade, Serbia.[8] As a journalist, she predominantly works as a film and TV critic.[9]

Literary work

Jelena is a graduate of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Department of Theater and radio production. Her bachelor thesis, "Theatre in the shadow of the gallows" ("Pozornica u senci vešala") explored the programming policies of Belgrade theaters during the Slobodan Milošević era. During the 1999 NATO intervention in Yugoslavia, Jelena resided in Budapest, Hungary, where she started work on her novel Kingdom[10] published in November 2003, excerpts from which were published in the book Voices from the faultline, A Balkan Anthology.[11]

Her second novel, published in 2011, is February 30.[12]

Journalism

In 1994 and 1995 she worked at one of Belgrade's most popular radio stations, Studio B,[13] as author and editor of the weekly radio show "Time In". This show was sponsored by Soros Fund Yugoslavia. In October 2005 she started one of the first pop-culture/political blogs in Serbia "AgitPop"[14] blog. Its motto is a citation from the letter written by Sigmund Freud to Albert Einstein in Vienna in September 1932: "Meanwhile we may rest on the assurance that whatever makes for cultural development is working also against war...".[15] At the same time Jelena writes for several Serbian newspapers and magazines[16] [17] [18] and became a part of the editorial team of the first internet radio station in Serbia, "Novi Radio Beograd".[19] [20]

Since March 2012, radio show Agitpop was broadcast on the Serbian national radio station B92, until this radio station became Play Radio.[21]

During COVID-19 pandemic, Jelena and Rabbi Uri Ayalon[22] from Jerusalem started to collaborate on podcast about Jewish topics "A Rabbi and a Film Critic Walk into a Bar.[23] . Show was first broadcast on Radio Melitz[24]

Personal life

Đurović was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to a Montenegrin father and a Jewish mother. Her mother, Svetlana Davidovac, has become known as a septuagenarian instagrammer, and gave advice to her age-group on staying safe during the Covid-19 pandemic.[25] [26] Her great-grandmother Serafina was sister of Lotika Zellermeier,[27] who was the inspiration for a character in Ivo Andrić's novel The Bridge on the Drina.

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Perović dobio državljanstvo jer je posebno bitan .
  2. Web site: Zwischen Belgrad und Podgorica . 20 June 2016 .
  3. Web site: Euro-Asian Jewish Congress - New Vice president of the Jewish Community of Montenegro . 29 August 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304124026/http://eajc.org/page84/news51897.html . 4 March 2016 . dead . dmy-all .
  4. Web site: Jelena Đurović, nova potpredsjednica JZCG . 29 August 2015 . 7 October 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151007110225/http://www.jevzajcg.me/index.php?start=3 . live .
  5. News: Finding the Jews of Montenegro: One man's mission . Ynetnews . 21 July 2018 . 24 September 2023 . 15 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210615181245/https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5313626,00.html . live .
  6. Web site: World Jewish Congress . 24 September 2023 . 5 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230605110630/https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/you-can-not-be-half-pregnant-the-same-goes-for-being-jewish-11-4-2015 . live .
  7. Web site: Head of Jewish community in Montenegro, Jasa Alfandari, dies at 72 . 12 July 2018 . 24 September 2023 . 26 August 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180826174340/http://ejpress.org/head-of-jewish-community-in-montenegro-jasa-alfandari-dies-at-72/ . live .
  8. Web site: Mirko Zečević predsjednik Crnogorske Nacionalne Zajednice Beograda (in Montenegrin) . 6 October 2015 . 25 May 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180525220605/http://portalanalitika.me/clanak/203970/mirko-zecevic-predsjednik-crnogorske-nacionalne-zajednice-beograda . live .
  9. Web site: MondoPop . 30 June 2019 . 1 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190701233342/http://mondo.rs/tag18695/MONDOPop/1 . live .
  10. Book: Kraljevstvo . 9788683275229 . January 2003 . Aleksandrija press Beograd .
  11. Web site: ZayuPress ... VOICES FROM THE FAULTLINE – A Balkan Anthology . 23 April 2009 . 29 June 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070629171340/http://www.zayupress.com/voices.html . live .
  12. Web site: "You cannot be half pregnant. The same goes for being Jewish" . World Jewish Congress . 23 December 2023 . EN . 19 November 2015.
  13. Web site: Studio-b.rs - studio b Resources and Information . 2010-12-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120430210642/http://www.studio-b.rs/radio/ . 30 April 2012 . dmy-all .
  14. Web site: Agit Pop . 23 April 2009 . 19 May 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080519144801/http://agitpopkultura.blogspot.com/ . live .
  15. https://archive.today/20120709140849/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1310/is_1993_March/ai_13886280/pg_7/?tag=content;col1 A letter from Freud to Einstein | UNESCO Courier | Find Articles at BNET
  16. Articles written and/or edited by Jelena for CAMP, FAAR and Glas magazines: http://agitpopmagazine.blogspot.com/
  17. Web site: www.glas-javnosti.co.yu . 20 July 2009 . 17 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120317080841/http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.rs/arhiva/2006/02/01/srpski/K06013103.shtml . live .
  18. Web site: Faar magazin / Faar magazine . 20 July 2009 . 17 July 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090717050823/http://faarmagazine.com/ . dead .
  19. http://www.noviradiobeograd.com noviradiobeograd.com
  20. http://www.blic.rs/kultura.php?id=59598 Blic Online | Novi Radio Beograd na internetu
  21. http://www.b92.net/kultura/vesti.php?nav_category=268&yyyy=2013&mm=02&dd=22&nav_id=689292 Agitpop on the B92 radio
  22. https://www.npr.org/2015/10/14/448697071/no-one-wants-this-level-of-violence-in-jerusalem-rabbi-says
  23. Web site: Mixcloud .
  24. https://melitz.org/melitz-radio-in-the-making/
  25. Web site: Djurovic . Jelena . How my mom became an Insta star without even trying . Times of Israel blog . 23 December 2023 . 4 August 2020.
  26. News: Stojanov . Ivana . Saveti o koronavirusu za starije - od penzionerke iz Beograda . 23 December 2023 . Nova.rs . 13 March 2020 . sr-RS . Advice on the coronavirus for the elderly - from a pensioner in Belgrade.
  27. Web site: Israel Hayom – A Jewish identity resurfaces, Interview with Jelena Đurović . 27 May 2012 . 23 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140323134817/http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4473 . live .

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