CONFERENCE ON HISTORY OF JEWS ON EASTERN CROATIAN COAST ENDS

( Editorial: --> 6686 ) DUBROVNIK, Aug 28 (Hina) - A three-day conference focusing on the history of Jews on Croatia's eastern coast ended in Dubrovnik (south Adriatic) on Friday. The conference, gathering some 60 participants, is a continued international conference entitled The Social and Cultural History of Jews on the Eastern Adriatic Coast by 1808 which took place two years ago. Director of the international centre of Croatian universities, Ivana Burdjelez, said Croatian scientists and workers in culture had had the opportunity to find out facts from rabbi and Hebrew sources about the history of urban centres from Split and Dubrovnik to the Neretva valley. This conference was important because it had gathered prominent people of the Mediterranean Jewish public life, including Jeruzalem's deputy mayor David Cassuto and the president of the Italian Jewish Community, Tullia Zevi, Burdjelez said. (hina) lml 282006 MET aug 98