This Jewish burial site is located within a small section of the municipal cemetery. Three Jewish tombstones have been preserved there, dating from 1885 to 1892.
Without a proper fence, the site was at risk of being gradually overtaken by new burials in the surrounding municipal Christian cemetery.
The first Jews appeared in the village of Manđelos in the second half of the 19th century. By the late 19th century, one or more Jewish families lived there, including the Rosenzweig family.
According to the 1931 census, there were no Jews living in the village.
During World War II, local residents provided refuge to two Jewish families: the Rosenzweig family and the David family, including Ruža David and her sons, Miša and Filip David (1940–2025), who would later become a prominent Serbian-Jewish writer, essayist, dramatist, and screenwriter.
The fencing project at the Manđelos Jewish cemetery was funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and made possible with the support of our partners at the Federation of Jewish Communities in Serbia, especially our country coordinator, Ladislav Trajer.
