Jaša Tomić

Jakov Tomić (; 23 October 1856 – 22 October 1922) was a Serbian journalist, politician and author from the Serbian region of Vojvodina, which was part of the Austrian Empire when he was born.

Modoš, a town in the Serbian part of Banat, was renamed in his honor in 1924.

Biography At the time of his birth in 1856, the town of Vršac was part of the Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar crown land in the post-1849 Habsburg monarchy. He attended elementary school in Vršac, then gymnasium in Timișoara and Kecskemét. He was a volunteer in the Herzegovina Uprising, after which he attended medical faculties in Vienna and Prague, In 1889, following a series of articles regarding nature of his employment at Zastava, in which he implicated his wife Milica Miletić, Tomić stabbed to death a liberal political rival, Miša Dimitrijević, the editor of Branik magazine, in Novi Sad. Dimitrijević alleged that Milica, who was the daughter of famed lawyer and Novi Sad mayor, Svetozar Miletić, who in turn was the founder of Zastava, arranged the position of editor for Tomić as a part of a dowry and mentioned in a daily journal that he was in a possession of a letter that demonstrated this intention and sent the letter in question to Jaša in written correspondence. He served seven years in prison for murder, emerging in 1896 with no loss of political zeal.

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 politicians (including 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 the Uspensko groblje cemetery.

Works In 1876 under the pseudonym "Volunteer" Milutin Spasić, Tomić wrote a brochure: Srpsko-turski rat 1876 (Serbo-Turkish War of 1876). Pesme (Poems), published by A. Pajević 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 prošlosti naših vođa (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 zločina, Novi Sad, 1896. Pametno nazarenstvo, Book 1, 1897. Pametno nazarenstvo, Book 2, 1897. Slike i pripovetke (Pictures and Stories), 1897. Vođa 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 the Kingdom 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 šećer, 1902. Majski sabor (May Assembly), 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. Reč 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 Kosovo, 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 čemu 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 Obradović, 1911. Rat na Kosovu i Staroj Srbiji (Battle of Kosovo and Old Serbia), 1913. Rat u Albaniji pod Skadrom, 1913. Rat u Maćedoniji 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 žena i šta će 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 činova, 1919.

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