In Tirana, Zekeria Rexha, activist of the National Liberation Anti-Fascist movement in Kosova, history researcher, writer, Teacher of the People, passed away. He was born in Gjakov\u00eb, in 1910. He attended primary school in his hometown. He finished high school at the French Lyceum of Kor\u00e7a. He continued his higher studies in philosophy in France and later finished in Belgrade. In the time between the two world wars, he served in the Ministry of Education in Tirana, and in 1942 he founded in Gjakov\u00eb and, for some time, directed, the first Normal School of Kosova. He was a participant of the Bujan Conference (1943-1944) as well as one of the drafters and signatories of its Resolution. After the war, he worked as a philosophy teacher in the high school of Prishtina, editor of the literary magazine “Jeta e re” (\u201cNew life\u201d)<\/i> and scientific employee of the Albanological Institute of Prishtina. In addition to educational, cultural and scientific activity, he made the first translations in Kosova, especially of French and other classical authors. He was known by his nicknames: Ram\u00eb Zuka, Azi and Shpend Dukagjini. With the first pseudonym, he published the cycle of humorous-satirical stories with the character of Talush Efendi, which appeared in the years 1951-1956, on the pages of “Jeta e re” (\u201cNew life\u201d)<\/i>. After the author’s death, the stories were published in Prishtina in a special book, with the title “Talush Efendija” (1973). (In the photo: Zekeria Rexha)<\/i><\/p>\n
Text:<\/strong> The encyclopedic dictionary of Kosova – Vol. II <\/i>, Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosova, Prishtina, 2018, page 1417\u20131418.<\/p>\n Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Zekeria_Rexha,_janar_1934.jpg<\/p>\n Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Tirana, Zekeria Rexha, activist of the National Liberation Anti-Fascist movement in Kosova, history researcher, writer, Teacher of the People, passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11099,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions\/11099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}