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'Moša Pijade' (Serbian Cyrillic: Мoшa Пиjaдe) (born Belgrade, January 4, 1890, died Paris, March 15, 1957) was a prominent Yugoslavian/Serbian Communist of Jewish origin, and a close collaborator of Josip Broz Tito, former President of Yugoslavia.
Pijade held high political posts during and after World War II and was a member of the Central Committee and the Politburo of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. He was a member of the Partisans and was subsequently proclaimed People's Hero of Yugoslavia.

Pijade was a painter, art critic, publicist and translator of ''Das Kapital'' by Karl Marx into Serbo-Croatian. He is thought to have had a major influence on political theory as exposed during the ''old regime''. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison because of his 'revolutionary acting' after the World War I. He was also the creator of so-called 'Foča regulations' (1942), which prescribed the creation and work of people-liberating committees on liberated territories. In November 1943, before the second AVNOJ meeting in Jajce, he initiated foundation of the Tanjug, which would later become the state news agency of SFR Yugoslavia.

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★ Jews of Yugoslavia 1941 - 1945 Jaša Romano

★ Šezdeset godina Tanjugove fotografije:Vili Šimunov Barba