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        <titleproper>Fund Aleksandar Matkovski  </titleproper>
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        <publisher>Архив—Македонска Академија на Науките и Уметностите</publisher>
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          <addressline>Blvd. Krste Misirkov, 2, P.O. Box 428</addressline>
          <addressline>1000</addressline>
          <addressline>Skopje</addressline>
          <addressline>MK</addressline>
          <addressline>+389 (0)2 32 35 530</addressline>
          <addressline>+389 (0)232 35 531</addressline>
          <addressline>http://manu.edu.mk/библиотека/</addressline>
          <addressline>http://manu.edu.mk/en/библиотека/</addressline>
          <addressline>arhiv@manu.edu.mk</addressline>
          <addressline>Macedonia</addressline>
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        <date normal="20210102">2021-01-02T19:17:29.860Z</date>
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      <unitid>Fund Aleksandar Matkovski </unitid>
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      <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">23 archival boxes

3 archival boxes hold material on the history of the Jews from Macedonia</physdesc>
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        <language langcode="ell" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Greek</language>
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        <language langcode="rus" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Russian</language>
        <language langcode="tur" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Turkish</language>
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      <p><![CDATA[The Fund Aleksandar Matkovski is consisted of rich material in regards to various historical periods of the region of Macedonia. Within this archival material, in separate three boxes, there are various documents referring to the history of the Jews on the Balkans, starting from ancient times, the period of the Ottoman Empire and the Second World War. In that context, the archive material contains important material about the history of the Jews from Macedonia, before the Holocaust, during the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Macedonian Jews after 1943. Aleksandar Matkovski's material for the Jews from Macedonia is also exposed in the work of his books: "Tragedy of the Jews in Macedonia", Skopje 1983 (published also in English in Yad Vashem Studies III, Jerusalem, 1959, under the title: “Destruction of Macedonian Jews”) and "Resistance in Macedonia", Skopje 1983]]></p>
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      <p><![CDATA[Archive - Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje]]></p>
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      <p><![CDATA[The Fund Aleksandar Matkovski contains documents and materials from various international archives and institutions, that Aleksandar Matkovski has collected and upon which he conducted his researches, as well as published his scientific works, starting from 1957 to 1992. After his death in 1992, his family handed over the personal archive of Matkovski to the Archive - Macedonian Academy of the Sciences and Arts (MASA), that created the Fund Aleksandar Matkovski. This fund is classified in 23 archive boxes. ]]></p>
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      <p><![CDATA[Aleksandar Matkovski (1922-1992), is the first Doctor of Historical Sciences and the first historian in Oriental studies in Macedonia. He was a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, a participant in the National Liberation War 1941. In 1942 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in Skopje and Varna (Bulgaria). After he has managed to escape from the prison, he has joined the Fifth Macedonian Brigade of the National Liberation War. 

Aleksandar Matkovski graduated from the teacher’s School of Skopje in 1947. In 1949 he completed the teacher’s training college in Belgrade. In 1951 Matkovski received his Bachelor’s degree in History from the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje. He defended his doctoral dissertation in History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1957. In 1961, he completed his studies in Oriental Philology at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade.
He worked at the Institute for National History in Skopje in the period 1971-1987. He was elected as a member of MASA in 1991.
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          <unitid>Box 17 AE94</unitid>
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            <language langcode="ell" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Greek</language>
            <language langcode="mkd" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Macedonian</language>
            <language langcode="rus" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Russian</language>
            <language langcode="tur" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Turkish</language>
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          <p><![CDATA[•	Documents on the religious history of the Jews (Old Slavic language)

•	Documents on English, Russian and Austrian statistics of the Jews and the Donme group  in Thessaloniki

•	Documents for the Donme group

•	Documents for Nathan from Gaza

•	Documents on the movement of Shabbatai Zevi on the Balkans, particularly in Turkey - Izmir and Perm, and in Greece, in Thessaloniki

•	Documents on the conversion of Shabbatai Zevi from a Jewish to a Muslim religion

•	Documents on Jewish literature, with an emphasis on the Haggadah
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          <unitid>Box 22 AE 112_146</unitid>
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            <language langcode="ell" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Greek</language>
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          <p><![CDATA[•	Jewish history in the region of Macedonia in ancient times

•	Participation of Jews from Macedonia in the 1903 Ilinden Uprising 

•	Jews in the Byzantine Empire

•	The Khazars and their question during the time of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius mission

•	Jews in Thessaloniki, Drama and Christopole (Kavala)

•	Leo Mung - a baptized Jew who became the Archbishop of Ohrid, around 1108
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          <unitid>Box 23 AE 147_166</unitid>
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          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">1 archival box 

Fund Aleksandar Matkovski</physdesc>
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          <p><![CDATA[•	Jews and World War II: the arrest of Franz Stangl

•	Detailed Report of Adolf Heinz Beckerle in 1943 and Conversation with Popov to solve the Jewish Question in the newly liberated lands from 1941, i.e. in Macedonia, by the Bulgarian authorities in Macedonia 

•	SS-Hauptsturmführer Theodor Danecker  reports to Eichmann through  Adolf Heinz Beckerle that he has concluded an Agreement for the deportation of 20,000 Jews from Thrace and Macedonia, as well as an agreement for the subsequent deportation of about 6000 Jews from Bulgaria. Data for the deportation.

•	Document for the Eichmann trial 

•	Documents on Bulgarian-German alliance

•	Press archive of the newspaper “Nova Makedonija”  for the collaborators with the Bulgarian occupier in Skopje: Kitinčev, Major of the City of Skopje

•	Documents for Treblinka

•	Cooperation between  Vančo Mihajlov, leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) after 1924, and Hitler in the period between 1941-1943


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      <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="002043">Александар Матковски</persname>
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