Bosnian hotel cancels meeting of European rabbis amid anti-Israel pressure from prominent locals
“This is a sad slap that Sarajevo has given itself,” said the head of the country’s Jewish community
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Attendees said they hoped the United Nations would declare July 11 as a memorial of the Srebrenica massacre, much like it created International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Culture Q & A: Is A Conspiracy Theory Responsible For This Year’s Shocking Nobel Prize In Literature?
The October announcement of Austrian novelist Peter Handke as the winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature was greeted, by many, with confusion. Handke, apologist for Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian president who oversaw the Bosnian genocide? Handke, who spoke at Milosevic’s funeral and told critics of his decision to do so to “go to…
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Fast Forward Bosnian School Changes Name To Honor Muslim Nazi Collaborator
TIRANA, Albania (JTA) — Israel’s Foreign Ministry has protested the naming of a school in Bosnia for a Muslim Nazi collaborator who incited anti-Semitic hatred during the Holocaust before he was executed. The Mustafa Busuladzic Elementary School in Sarajevo dismissed the criticism over its August name change, saying that Israel “has no right to give…
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Culture The Secret Jewish History of Bosnia and Sarajevo
There are bullet holes on apartment blocks, civil buildings and places of worship. Even the tombstones in the Jewish cemetery are pockmarked. Located high on the hillside overlooking Sarajevo, the graveyard presented itself as the perfect frontline position during the city’s siege in the 1990s. Its graves bear silent witness to the Serbian snipers who…
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Fast Forward Sarajevo Celebrates 600-Year-Old Sephardic Haggadah
Employees at Bosnia’s National Museum, known as the British Museum of the Balkans, returned to work on Wednesday to prepare for the re-opening of the institution which was closed three years ago over a lack of funding. The divided country’s authorities have promised to provide funding for the landmark Sarajevo museum and to open it…
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Fast Forward Arrest Made in Brazen Attack on Bosnian Jewish Leader
A man has been arrested in connection with an attack on Bosnian Jewish leader Eli Tauber. Tauber was attacked by a man wielding a weighted chain at a cafe in central Sarajevo, in front of many witnesses. The attack, widely reported in the Bosnian media, occurred on March 21. It took place while journalists from…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Bosnian Soccer Fans Chant ‘Kill the Jews’
Fans of a Bosnian soccer team chanted anti-Semitic epithets in Vienna prior to a match with the Bosnia-Herzegovina team. The some 50 fans wearing team colors were seen in a video on YouTube among several dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators at a central city plaza during a Tuesday protest, the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on Friday….
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