Dr. Ivo Goldstein is a Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

n historian.

He received his PhD in history at the University of Zagreb

University of Zagreb

The University of Zagreb is the biggest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of Southeastern Europe...

. Since 2001 he is a full professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences or the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb is one of the top faculties of the University of Zagreb.-History:...

. He deals with Byzantium

Byzantium

Byzantium was an ancient Greek city, founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 667 BC and named after their king Byzas . The name Byzantium is a Latinization of the original name Byzantion...

 and Croatian history in the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

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, especially the early Middle Ages, as well as history of the Jews in Croatia

History of the Jews in Croatia

The Jewish community of Croatia dates back to at least the 3rd century AD, although little is known of the community until the 10th and 15th centuries. The community, over 20,000 strong on the eve of World War II, was almost entirely destroyed in the Holocaust. After the WWII half of the survivors...

 and the Croatian history of 20th century.

He is also president of Bet Israel, a Jewish group in Zagreb, which he leads with his father, historian Slavko Goldstein

Slavko Goldstein

Slavko Goldstein is a Croatian Jewish historian, writer and publisher.Goldstein family was originally from Tuzla, but Slavko spend his childhood in Karlovac wherehis father Ivo was notable bookseller...

. They are both involved with the reconstruction of the Zagreb Synagogue

Zagreb synagogue

The Zagreb Synagogue was the main place of worship for the Jewish community of Zagreb in modern-day Croatia, from its construction in 1867 in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia within the Austrian Empire, until its demolition by the fascist authorities in 1941 in the Axis-aligned Independent State of...

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Works

• Bizant na Jadranu (1992)
• Hrvatski rani srednji vijek (1995)
• Croatia: A History (2000)
• Holokaust u Zagrebu (2001)
• Židovi u Zagrebu 1918.-1941. (2005)
• Evropa i Sredozemlje u srednjem vijeku (2006)
• Hrvatska 1918.-2008.(2008)

External links

• Ivo Goldstein's profile at the Ruđer Bošković Institute Library