Moshe Pijade (Mosa Pijade). Book on his life and family. 1968. 948 pages. 25.5 x 20 cm. Cloth. 2.100 k”g. Quite ...

Moshe Pijade (Mosa Pijade). Book on his life and family. 1968. 948 pages. 25.5 x 20 cm. Cloth. 2.100 k”g. Quite good condition. Moša Pijade (Serbian Cyrillic: Мoшa Пиjaдe; 4 January 1890 – 15 March 1957), nicknamed Čiča Janko (Чича Јанко, lit. "Uncle Janko") was a Serbian and Yugoslav communist, a close collaborator of Josip Broz Tito, former President of Yugoslavia, and full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Pijade was of Sephardic Jewish parentage. In his youth, Pijade was a painter, art critic and publicist. He was also known for translating Das Kapital by Karl Marx into Serbo-Croatian. In 1948 Pijade convinced Tito to allow those Jews who remained in Yugoslavia to emigrate to Israel. Tito agreed on a one-time exception basis. As a result, 3,000 Jews were allowed to emigrate from Yugoslavia to Israel on the SS Kefalos in December 1948.