Dr. Žak Konfino was a Serbian physician and writer, publishing a dozen books and short stories throughout his career.
His ancestors were expelled from Spain in the fifteenth century and lived as Sephardic Jews in Istanbul and Thessaloniki.
During World War II, he served as a medical assistant in Valjevo and Leskovac and ended up with the Serbian army in Albania.
In his home town of Leskovac he spent from 1920-1936 as a doctor and then moved to Belgrade, where he opened a private practice as a specialist in the treatment of asthma and radiology.
After World War II he returned to Belgrade and worked in Major military hospital.