Arts & Humanities Journal|IJAH

Title: JEWS - RELATING ALBANIANS
Authors: Elvira LUMI
Volume:5 Issue: 1
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Elvira LUMI Head of Department of Literature and Journalism, University of Elbasan “Aleksandër Xhuvani”, Albania
MLA 8 LUMI, Elvira. "JEWS - RELATING ALBANIANS." Int. J. Arts&Humanities, vol. 5, no. 1, Feb. 2021, pp. 1-6, doi.org/10.46609/IJAH.2021.v05i01.001. Accessed Feb. 2021. APA 6 LUMI, E. (2021, February). JEWS - RELATING ALBANIANS. Int. J. Arts&Humanities, 5(1), 1-6. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJAH.2021.v05i01.001 Chicago LUMI, Elvira. "JEWS - RELATING ALBANIANS." Int. J. Arts&Humanities 5, no. 1 (February 2021), 1-6. Accessed February, 2021. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJAH.2021.v05i01.001.
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Keywords: Jews, relating, Albanians, Besa (Trust), security, cultural interchange, archeological artifacts, contemporary, historic and literature evidence
Abstract: The ‘Jews in the land of the Besa’, which refers to the stone memorial erected in Qarrishta of Librazhd, dedicated to the Biçaku family that sheltered and saved 26 Jews during World War II, reminded us Einstein and his theory that “Everything is relative. One thing is absolute, that everything is relative”. But the ‘Land of the Besa’ cannot be fully understood and dealt with, without taking into consideration the famous saying: “I still taste in my mouth the corn bread that your family provided for us”, of the two Jews that were sheltered by this family during 1943-1944, Mr. Rafael Faragi (Haifa, Israel, from the correspondence of 1993-1995), Simon Aorest (Buenos Aires, Argentina). This leads us to the second idea, that of: “Security, liberty and social and cultural interchange” (S.K www.sebastian-kurz.at, 21.12.2018) which inspired us for the title and research of our paper: Jews- relating Albanians. The purpose of this paper is to observe the continuity of relating between Albanians and Jews from antiquity, in ancient time to the present. The methodology used is based on the investigation of artifacts and concrete archeological, historical and contemporary evidence that testify for the direct or indirect connections between the Jews and Albanians. Today Albania calls the “House of life” in the Memory of Jews during the Holocaust time, honored by the Raoul Wallenberg International Foundation (26.01.2019). The method used is inductive as well as deductive.
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