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Sarajevo Haggadah

The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo, home to the famous Sarajevo Haggadah, on February 22, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ELVIS BARUKCIC)
August 4, 2025, 8:31 pm
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By Zev Stub and ToI Staff
Left: A group of Jewish civilians and partisans in Croatia, 1942; center: Detail of the ‘Maror’ page of the Sarajevo Haggadah; right: Shani Altarac, seen in 1948, the young Yugoslav partisan who wrote the Partisan Haggadah. (Photos of partisans and Altarac courtesy of Eliezer Papo/ via JTA; photo of haggadah courtesy of the Foundation for Jewish Culture)
March 27, 2021, 10:41 am
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By Theo Canter
President Reuven Rivlin, center, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz shake hands at the memorial ceremony for the late president Shimon Peres at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on September 19, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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This photograph taken on February 22, 2018, shows visitors to The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo, which has revealed a new space intended for keeping one of museum's most valuable items, the famous Sarajevo Haggadah. (AFP/Elvis Barukcic)
March 6, 2018, 4:36 am
Ancient Haggadah symbolizing fate of Sarajevo Jews finally finds permanent home
Famous 14th-century holy book that survived the inquisition, Holocaust and Serbian shelling in 1990s put on display at Bosnia’s National Museum
By Rusmir SMAJILHODZIC
Jakob Finci, head of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Jewish community, in his Sarajevo office (Anne Joseph/The Times of Israel)
November 28, 2015, 2:06 am
In post-war Bosnia, Jews celebrate 450 years of survival
Living in a country once marred by sectarian conflict, Jewish leader Jakob Finci says his 1,000-strong community ‘feels safe’ 20 years after the end of the Bosnian War
By Anne Joseph
Detail of the 'Maror' page of the Sarajevo Haggadah (courtesy of the Foundation for Jewish Culture)
October 7, 2014, 4:02 pm
Hostage to politics, glorious Sarajevo Haggadah languishes in crumbling museum
Priceless 14th-century manuscript from Spanish Jewry’s Golden Age survived inquisitions and the Holocaust, but now sits trapped in the shuttered Bosnian National Museum, barred from public display
By Ilan Ben Zion
Detail of the 'Maror' page of the Sarajevo Haggadah (courtesy of the Foundation for Jewish Culture)
April 13, 2014, 11:39 am
Modern Exodus: the Sarajevo Haggadah’s musical journey
Inspired by the haggadah’s story, which parallels her own traumatic dislocation, Bosnian Merima Ključo composes ‘The Music of the Book’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Bosnian conservationist technician Hamo Karkelja looks at original book of Sarajevo Haggadah, displayed at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, Bosnia, 2010 (photo credit: Amel Emric/AP)
February 6, 2013, 11:16 pm
Prized Sarajevo Haggadah won’t show in NYC
Bosnian officials reject Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibit proposal because of domestic legal issues
By Aida Cerkez
February 6, 2013, 4:59 pm
Bosnia blocks Jewish manuscript from New York show
Sarajevo Haggadah won’t go on display at Metropolitan Museum of Art until funding issue is resolved
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