Jaša Tomic
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Jaša Tomić was a Serbian
politician, publicist, journalist and man of letters from Vojvodina
, Serbia
.
in 1856, it was part of the Serbian Vojvodina
in the post-1848 Habsburg monarchy. Tomić's family, Serbian Orthodox Christian, was well-to-do having thrived significantly in trade in the region. He attended elementary school in Werschetz, then gymnasium in Temeschwar
(Romanian: Timişoara) and Kecskemét
. He was a volunteer in the Herzegovina Uprising (1875-1878), after which he attended medical faculties in Vienna
and Prague
, but later transferred to the faculty of philosophy and philology. Thereafter, Tomić was involved in Serbian politics in Austro-Hungarian-occupied Serbia (Serbian Vojvodina). Combining interests in socialism and Serbian national politics as did many of his generation, namely Svetozar Marković
and Nikola Pašić
, he eventually found himself much less of a socialist than an ardent Serbian patriot.
Tomić was the editor of Srpsko kolo and Zastava magazines and founder of the People's Freethinker Party (Narodna slobodoumna stranka), which in 1891 became the Radical Party (Radikalna stranka). In 1889, following a drawn-out series of provocations regarding the honour of his wife, Tomić stabbed to death a liberal political rival, Miša Dimitrijević, the editor of Branik magazine, in Novi Sad. He served seven years in prison for murder, emerging in 1896 with no loss of political zeal. Not only political but economic issues had far reaching importance to him. Tomić, then the most vociferous opponent of the hierarchy, the leader of the Serbian radical party and son-in-law of Svetozar Miletić
, blamed the clergy for driving people away from churches. because of its insistence on controlling church and autonomous finances: Whoever has to worry about how to spend so much money has no more time to care for the church and people. (Jaša Tomić, Karlovačka Mitropolija i Hrišćanstvo / The Metropolitanate of Karlovci and Christianity, Novi Sad, 1913, p. 40)
In 1918, Tomić became president of the Serb National Council in Novi Sad
, where at the Great People's Assembly of Banat, Bačka and Baranja
from November 25, he proclaimed the secession of these regions from the Kingdom of Hungary
and their unification with the Kingdom of Serbia
. In 1919 Jaša
Tomić, still the leader of the Radicals in Vojvodina Province, whose failing health prevented him from taking a more active role was perfectly straightforward in stating to Croat politician Vjekoslav Spinčić
that "we are not one" in nationality. He was also occupied with literary work at the time. Tomić died in Novi Sad in 1922, and was buried at Uspensko groblje, the Ascension Cemetery.
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
politician, publicist, journalist and man of letters from Vojvodina
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...
, Serbia
Serbia
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.
Biography
When Jaša Tomić was born at VršacVršac
Vršac is a town and municipality located in Serbia. In 2002 the town's total population was 36,623, while Vršac municipality had 54,369 inhabitants. Vršac is located in the Banat region, in the Vojvodina province of Serbia. It is part of the South Banat District.-Name:The name Vršac is of Serbian...
in 1856, it was part of the Serbian Vojvodina
Serbian Vojvodina
The Serbian Vojvodina was a Serbian autonomous region within the Austrian Empire...
in the post-1848 Habsburg monarchy. Tomić's family, Serbian Orthodox Christian, was well-to-do having thrived significantly in trade in the region. He attended elementary school in Werschetz, then gymnasium in Temeschwar
Timisoara
Timișoara is the capital city of Timiș County, in western Romania. One of the largest Romanian cities, with an estimated population of 311,586 inhabitants , and considered the informal capital city of the historical region of Banat, Timișoara is the main social, economic and cultural center in the...
(Romanian: Timişoara) and Kecskemét
Kecskemét
Kecskemét is a city in the central part of Hungary. It is the 8th largest city of the country, and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun.Kecskemét lies halfway between the capital Budapest and the country's third-largest city, Szeged, 86 kilometres from both of them and almost equal distance from the two...
. He was a volunteer in the Herzegovina Uprising (1875-1878), after which he attended medical faculties in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
and Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
, but later transferred to the faculty of philosophy and philology. Thereafter, Tomić was involved in Serbian politics in Austro-Hungarian-occupied Serbia (Serbian Vojvodina). Combining interests in socialism and Serbian national politics as did many of his generation, namely Svetozar Marković
Svetozar Markovic
Svetozar Marković was an influential Serbian political activist and literary critic. He developed an activistic anthropological philosophy with a definite program of social change.-Early life:...
and Nikola Pašić
Nikola Pašic
Nikola P. Pašić was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and diplomat, the most important Serbian political figure for almost 40 years, leader of the People's Radical Party who, among other posts, was twice a mayor of Belgrade...
, he eventually found himself much less of a socialist than an ardent Serbian patriot.
Tomić was the editor of Srpsko kolo and Zastava magazines and founder of the People's Freethinker Party (Narodna slobodoumna stranka), which in 1891 became the Radical Party (Radikalna stranka). In 1889, following a drawn-out series of provocations regarding the honour of his wife, Tomić stabbed to death a liberal political rival, Miša Dimitrijević, the editor of Branik magazine, in Novi Sad. He served seven years in prison for murder, emerging in 1896 with no loss of political zeal. Not only political but economic issues had far reaching importance to him. Tomić, then the most vociferous opponent of the hierarchy, the leader of the Serbian radical party and son-in-law of Svetozar Miletić
Svetozar Miletic
Svetozar Miletić was an advocate, politician, mayor of Novi Sad, and the political leader of Serbs in Vojvodina. He was the oldest of seven children born to Sima and Teodosija Miletić in the village of Mošorin in Šajkaška, the Serbian Military Frontier, on February 22, 1826...
, blamed the clergy for driving people away from churches. because of its insistence on controlling church and autonomous finances: Whoever has to worry about how to spend so much money has no more time to care for the church and people. (Jaša Tomić, Karlovačka Mitropolija i Hrišćanstvo / The Metropolitanate of Karlovci and Christianity, Novi Sad, 1913, p. 40)
In 1918, Tomić became president of the Serb National Council in Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
, where at the Great People's Assembly of Banat, Bačka and Baranja
Banat, Backa and Baranja
Banat, Bačka and Baranja was a de facto province of the Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes between October 1918 and March 1919...
from November 25, he proclaimed the secession of these regions from the Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary comprised present-day Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia , Transylvania , Carpatho Ruthenia , Vojvodina , Burgenland , and other smaller territories surrounding present-day Hungary's borders...
and their unification with the Kingdom of Serbia
Kingdom of Serbia
The Kingdom of Serbia was created when Prince Milan Obrenović, ruler of the Principality of Serbia, was crowned King in 1882. The Principality of Serbia was ruled by the Karađorđevic dynasty from 1817 onwards . The Principality, suzerain to the Porte, had expelled all Ottoman troops by 1867, de...
. In 1919 Jaša
Tomić, still the leader of the Radicals in Vojvodina Province, whose failing health prevented him from taking a more active role was perfectly straightforward in stating to Croat politician Vjekoslav Spinčić
Vjekoslav Spincic
Vjekoslav Spinčić was a Croatian politician from Istria.After studying theology in Gorica and Trieste, he was ordained a priest in 1872. Afterwards, he continued studies in history and geography in Prague and Vienna...
that "we are not one" in nationality. He was also occupied with literary work at the time. Tomić died in Novi Sad in 1922, and was buried at Uspensko groblje, the Ascension Cemetery.
His Works
- In 1876 under the pseudionym "Volunteer" Milutin Spasić, Tomić wrote a brochure: Srpsko-turski rat 1876 (Serbo-Turkish War of 1876).
- Pesme (Poems), published by A. Pajevica in 1879, edited by Kosta Lera.
- In 1884 Tomić issued a political pamphlet, Stranke srpskih notabiliteta protiv srpske narodne slobodoumne stranke.
- Političko vjeruju, reprinted from Zastava, organ of the Radical Party (NRS), 1886.
- Književna zrnca, Vol I, 1888.
- Treba li narodu politika (Do People Need Politics), 1888.
- Posle petstotina godina: razmatranja o Kosovskoj bitci i propasti carstva srpskog (After Five Hundred Years: A Look at the Battle of Kosovo and the Fall of the Serbian Kingdom), 1889.
- Iz proslosti nasih vodja (Our Leaders From the Past), 1889.
- Govor u svoju odbranu prlilikom naknadne rasprave zbog tucindanskog dogadjaja u novom Sadu, 1891.
- Nazareni (Nazarenes, a novel), printed in Novi Sad, 1896.
- Pesme Jaše Tomića (Poems by Jaša Tomić), 1896
- O uzrocima zloćina, Novi Sad, 1896.
- Pametno nazarenstvo, Book 1, 1897.
- Pametno nazarenstvo, Book 2, 1897.
- Slike i pripovetke (Pictures and Stories), 1897.
- Vodja kroz izbore (Through the Elections), Novi Sad, 1897.
- Čiča Stanko (Old Man Stanko), Novi Sad, 1897.
- Zemljoradnička sirotinja u Ugarskoj (The Poor Farming Folk of Hungary), 1897.
- Ima li pomoći našim zanatlijama (Is There Aid For Our Tradesmen), 1898.
- Trulez (novel), 1898.
- Program radikalne i program liberalne stranke (The Program of the Radical Party and Liberal Party), 1901.
- U čemu je stvar (What It's All About), 1901.
- Gorak sećer, 1902.
- Majski sabor (May AssemblyMay AssemblyMay Assembly was the national assembly of the Serbs in Austrian Empire, held in 1 and 3 May 1848 in Sremski Karlovci, during which the Serbs proclaimed autonomous Serbian Vojvodina. This action was later recognized by the supreme Austrian authority in Vienna...
), 1902. - Kakvo se zlo sprema u Srbiji"", 1903.
- Hoćemo li u socijaliste (Do We Want Socialists), 1904.
- Na prelomu, 1905.
- Jedan nadsolgabirov, 1904.
- Parnica protiv srpskih manastira, 1905.
- Izbor i pravo manjine (Elections and the Rights of the Minority), 1905.
- Sta je bilo i sta treba da bude (What It Was and What Should Be), 1905.
- Jesmo li na dobrom putu (Are We On the Right Path), 1906.
- Vodja kroz saborske izbore, 1906.
- Nisam više magarac (I'm No Longer An Ass), 1906.
- Tražim svoja prava (I Want My Rights), 1907.
- Samostalci iz Hrvatske i Slavonije i samostalci iz Srbije. 1907.
- Sabor junak od megdana, 1907.
- Reć našoj braći u Srbiji, 1907.
- Kako smo birali patrijarhe kroz 200 godina (How We Elected Patriarchs Through the 200 Years), 1908.
- Nova manastirska uredba, 1908.
- Laze i paralaze (Lies and More Lies), 1908.
- Boj na Kosovu, Seoba Srba (The Battle of KosovoBattle of KosovoThe Battle of Kosovo took place on St. Vitus' Day, June 15, 1389, between the army led by Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović, and the invading army of the Ottoman Empire under the leadership of Sultan Murad I...
, The Great Serbian Migration), Montenegro, 1908. - Kako se zovemo (How We Are Called), 1909.
- Veleizdajnička parnica u Zagrebu, 1908.
- Žena i njeno pravo (Woman and Her Rights), 1909.
- U ćemu je naša avtonomna borba, 1910.
- Hoćemo li na djavolsku stranu (Do We Want the Devil's Side), 1910.
- Na pragu novog doba u Ugarskoj, 1910.
- Nesavremena i savremena istorija, 1910.
- Gde je srpska politika i Samouprava-napred, 1911.
- Dositej ObradovićDositej ObradovicDositej Dimitrije Obradović was a Serbian author, philosopher, linguist, polyglot and the first minister of education of Serbia...
, 1911. - Rat na Kosovu i Staroj Srbiji (Battle of Kosovo and Old SerbiaOld SerbiaOld Serbia is a modern name for the territory which was the core of medieval Serbia. It included Raška , Kosovo and Metohija and the Macedonia...
), 1913. - Rat u Albaniji pod Skadrom, 1913.
- Rat u Macedoniji i Bugarskoj, 1914.
- Karlovačka Mitropolija i Hrišćanstvo (The Metropolitanate of Karlovci and Christianity), 1913.
- Seoba u Srbiju, 1914.
- Naša nova država u kolevci, 1919.
- Krajnje vreme da se razumemo, 1919.
- Šta je bila zena i šta ce biti, 1918.
- Lepa književnost i umetnost, 1918.
- Gradja za nov radikalni program, 1919.
- Kako da delimo zemlju, 1919.
- S kim ćemo i kuda ćemo, (With Whom Are We Going and Where Are We Going), 1919.
- Razvod braka, pozorišna igra u 5 ćinova, 1919.