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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 424

Sarajevo

Screen capture from video of the short film 'Sevap/Mitzvah' (A Good Deed). (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 26, 2024, 3:27 pm
Sarajevo film premiere spotlights rare Muslim-Jewish harmony
‘Sevap/Mitzvah’ tells true story of Muslim woman who hid a Jewish family in WWII Nazi-occupied Sarajevo and was then saved by a Jewish family from besieged Bosnian capital in 1990s
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A still from 'Sevap/Mitzvah' a short film directed by Sabina Vajrača that won the 2023 Humanitas Prize. (©geminisnakeproductions via JTA)
November 4, 2023, 4:07 pm
Bosnian director’s short on Muslims and Jews saving one another is a ‘mitzvah’
In Sabina Vajrača’s award-winning film, a Muslim family saves a Jewish one from the Nazis. 50 years later, the Jewish family returns the favor in Sarajevo
By Shira Li Bartov
An engraving depicts Ancona, Italy, where local Jews used to celebrate multiple version of Purim. (DEA/A. Dagli Orti/De Agostini via Getty Images/JTA)
March 7, 2023, 5:36 am
Sarajevo Jews celebrate a second Purim. For centuries, they weren’t alone
For many of the 900 or so Jews in Bosnia, this week will be the first of two annual Purim celebrations; Jews in Italy, Spain, Maghreb region have similar customs
By David I. Klein
A synagogue inside the Jewish community center in Sarajevo, February 4, 2022. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)
February 9, 2023, 12:30 pm
Bosnia’s Jewish community putting together an archive for an eventual museum
Historian Eli Tauber, leading the project, says it will be a challenge to piece together family histories and destinies that cover 500 years
By David I. Klein
People walk backdropped by a banner showing victims executed by hanging in 1945 by the pro-Nazi Croatian WWII Ustasha regime in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on May 16, 2020. (AP/Kemal Softic)
May 17, 2020, 1:19 am
Thousands in Sarajevo protest against Mass for Nazi collaborators
Demonstrators from several walks of life march to decry ceremony honoring members of Croatian Ustasha regime, which carried out atrocities against Jews and Muslims in World War II
By AP
This photograph taken on February 23, 2018, shows a gate at the entrance of The Jewish Cemetery with the background of the city center of Sarajevo. (AFP PHOTO / ELVIS BARUKCIC)
November 9, 2019, 9:39 am
Bosnian Jews and Muslims tell the story of ‘Sarajevo’s Purim’
Communities mark 1819 event when Muslims rose up against Ottoman governor who threatened to kill off the imprisoned elite of the city’s Jewish community
By AFP
Professor Gideon Greif. (Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0)
February 9, 2019, 7:52 pm
Israeli Holocaust historian to head new Srebrenica commission
Professor Gideon Greif will lead new probe into 1995 massacre, as a second Israeli academic investigates ‘suffering of Serbs in Sarajevo during the war’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
In this photograph taken on September 28, 2018, Bosnian Croat supporters of HDZ, the Croat Democratic Union, the most influential political party among Bosnian Croats, cheer during a pre-election rally in the northwestern Bosnian town of Livno. (AFP Photo/Elvis Barukcic)
October 5, 2018, 3:19 pm
In ethnically split Bosnia, ‘others,’ including Jews, are on the outside
1995 Dayton peace accords stipulate that political power must be shared among self-identified Serbs, Croats and Muslims, ignoring the rest
By Rusmir SMAJILHODZIC
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
French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy looks on during a forum against abstention in Paris, on May 5, 2017, two days ahead of the second round of the French presidential elections. (AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE LOPEZ)
May 11, 2017, 12:19 am
Jewish French philosopher gets pied in face in Belgrade
Bernard-Henri Levy attacked by Serbian activists over his support for Muslims and opposition to Milosevic in 1990s
By AFP and JTA
Maajid Nawaz
December 20, 2016, 2:45 pm
Maajid Nawaz
Europe on a precipice — maybe
Do eerie parallels between the assassinations of Ambassador Karlov and Archduke Ferdinand mean war is on the horizon?
Robert De Niro arrives for the opening of the Sarajevo Film Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia, August 12, 2016. (AP)
August 14, 2016, 12:55 am
De Niro compares Trump to ‘Taxi Driver’ madman
Like Travis Bickle, mentally disturbed protagonist of 1976 movie, Republican presidential nominee is ‘totally nuts,’ actor says
By Aida Cerkez
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
Bosnian policemen are seen while securing a of a shooting and bombing attack near Sarajevo on November 19, 2015. (AFP/ELVIS BARUKCIC)
November 19, 2015, 7:54 am
‘Probable Islamist’ kills two Bosnian soldiers in suicide attack
Assailant opens fire on troops, bus before blowing self up near Sarajevo; anti-terror chief says accounts point to attacker being jihadist
By AFP
Pope Francis waves to the crowd as he arrives to celebrate Mass at the Kosevo stadium, in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Saturday, June 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
June 6, 2015, 10:21 pm
Pope urges reconciliation in ‘Europe’s Jerusalem’
In Sarajevo, pontiff calls on Muslims, Orthodox and Catholics to put ‘barbarity’ of Bosnian war behind them
By Aida Cerkez and Nicole Winfield
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