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Yugoslavia Other Faiths
During the Protestant Reformation, a number of Protestant
communities arose in regions now included in Yugoslavia. Many
initial Protestant conversions were later reversed in the
Counterreformation, especially in Slovenia and Croatia. The most
notable exceptions were the Calvinist communities of Vojvodina.
The surviving Calvinist Reformed Church in Vojvodina was mostly
Hungarian in membership. In 1987 it had forty-three parishes,
ninety-two affiliated offices, about sixty churches and prayer
houses, and over forty ministers trained at theological schools
in Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland. In the twentieth century,
numerous Protestant faiths, including newer groups such as the
Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses, also found a
foothold in Yugoslavia.
Much of Yugoslavia's prewar Jewish community was destroyed in
the Holocaust, and many of the survivors emigrated to Israel
after 1948. Yugoslavia's 1931 census recorded a Jewish population
of 68,405. By contrast only 6,835 persons identified themselves
as Jews by nationality in the census of 1948, and in 1980 the
number of Jews had shrunk to 5,638. The remaining community is
organized into twenty-nine communes affiliated with the Belgradebased Federation of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia.
Data as of December 1990
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