Bosnian home of a Jewish treasure reopens | Focus on Europe
Although the National Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina in Sarajevo was closed in 2012, thanks to the efforts of staff and activists, the country's shared Muslim, Jewish and Christian heritage is once again on show to the public.
Bosnia - Convoy of Bosnian Jews
A convoy of some 300 Jewish Bosnians is hoping to leave Sarajevo
this afternoon around 1300 gmt. The six buses and two trucks have
been in preparation throughout the morning at the Jewish community
centre. Jakov Dinenteld, the head of security at the community
centre, said UNPROFOR vehicles would escort the convoy to the
Sarajevo suburb of Lukavica on the Bosnian Serb side and then it
would go to Makarska near Split, Croatia.
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pan from building to bus and crowds of refugees and wellwishers
gathered for farewell
man passing travellers with wheelbarrow
cu of travellers
people atop of building
cu of travellors
Jakov Dinenteld, head of staff security at the community centre
says Unprofor will escort the convoy to the Sarajevo suburb of
Lukavica on the Bosnian Serb side and then the convoy will go to
Makarska near Split, Croatia
man waving farewell
onto bus
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Sarajevo Museums in Peril
22 February 2013
Earlier this month, Sarajevo marked the 125th anniversary of the National Museum of Bosnia and Hercegovina. Instead of celebrating, though, people came to light 125 candles and lay the same number of roses at the museum's front entrance.
They could not go inside, because the museum has been closed to the public since last October due to lack of funding.
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BOSNIA: SARAJEVO HAGGADAH: JEWISH COMMUNITY CEREMONY
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A priceless medieval manuscript has been opened for only the third time in fifty years today (Saturday) as Sarajevo's Jewish community marked Passover.
At the ceremony to open the revered 'Sarajevo Haggadah' (holy book) was Bosnia's Muslim President where he called on Bosnians to stay on in the country depite the war.
Prayers were also read from the tiny book's magnificently illustrated vellum pages.
For thousands of years, Jews have spent the Passover holiday recounting the story of their Exodus from Egypt by reading from the Haggadah (in Hebrew literally meaning 'the telling').
The Sarajevo Haggadah was written between the years 1320 and 1350 in northern Spain and is acclaimed as one of finest illustrated medieval manuscripts in existence.
In 1492, when Jews were expelled from Spain, the book left with them.
The next recorded mention of the book was in 1609 in Italy before it found its way into Sarajevo's National Museum in 1894.
Nazi Germans during the Second World War attempted to confiscate the Haggadah from the Museum, but it was saved by an Islamic scholar and hidden under floorboards in a mountain retreat.
Today's celebration was ecumenical, gathering together Islamic, Catholic and Orthodox leaders, as well as officials from Bosnia's government gathered.
Izetbegovic urged his people to stay in Bosnia in spite of the hardships of the war and said his government was one of tolerance for all faiths.
But despite the celebrations a sombre tone prevailed as war rumbled on outside the synagogues walls.
Just minutes before the worship commenced sniper bullets killed a second French peacekeeper was killed in the last two days.
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The Jewish community of Bosnia and Herzegovina has a rich and varied history, surviving World War II and the Yugoslav Wars, after having been born as a result of the Spanish Inquisition, and having been almost destroyed by the Holocaust.
The Jewish Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina now numbers some 500 people, spread in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Mostar, Tuzla, Doboj, and Zenica.
Jevreji su se kao etnička vjerska zajednica u BiH pojavili nakon progona iz Španije krajem 15. vijeka, kada su tražeći utočište došli u Bosnu (tada u sastavu Osmanlijske imperije).
Da bi stvorio novu aristokratiju u obezglavljenoj (nakon masakra aristokratije u Doboru 1408.) i anihiliranoj zemlji (skoro sve od ukupno 500 dvoraca Turci su sravnili sa zemljom, ostavivši samo nadgrobne spomenike - stećke, kao oznaku ničije zemlje), Sultan šalje admiralski brod u Španiju 1492. godine. Odatle dovlači elitu za novac u vidu obrazovanih sefardskih Jevreja koji će primiti islam i kroz nekoliko generacija se utopiti u lokalno stanovništvo. Pri tom su dobili zemlju pogubljene domaće aristokratije, te naslove beg i aga. Zauzvrat, u vijekovima koji su nastupili, za svoje gospodare prepuštat će Bosnu na milost i nemilost geopolitičkim vjetrovima, bez organizovanja značajnog otpora.
Jevrejska zajednica se održala do današnjih dana, iako u malom broju. Veliki broj Jevreja u gradskim sredinama BiH (Sarajevo, Tuzla, Banja Luka, Doboj, Derventa itd.) se utopio u lokalno stanovništvo islamiziranjem, a značajan dio je nestao u pogromima tokom Drugog svjetskog rata (danas u Tuzli stoji spomenik Suza posvećen tim dešavanjima). Jedan dio je nakon rata kao svoj novi dom odabrao Izrael. O dugotrajnom prisustvu Jevreja u BiH svjedoče sinagoga u Sarajevu, kao i Jevrejska groblja u Sarajevu i Tuzli, koji su danas više historijski spomenici nego funkcionalne cjeline. Također su postojala dva groblja u Banjoj Luci, kao i četiri sinagoge.
Od današnjih bh. političara jevrejskog porijekla, najpoznatiji je Ministar vanjskih poslova Bosne i Hercegovine Sven Alkalaj, iz Stranke za BiH, kojem su politički predstavnici Bošnjaka ustupili mjesto u Vijeću ministara. Prema postojećim ustavnim rješenjima, osporenim presudama Evropskog suda pravde, samo tzv. konstitutivni narodi, tj. Bošnjaci, Srbi i Hrvati, obavezno imaju etničke predstavnike u Vijeću ministara na bazi pariteta, dok ostalim građanima zemlje to pravo je uskraćeno.
Das Judentum in Bosnien und Herzegowina wird erstmals im 16. Jahrhundert (1565) erwähnt.
Vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gab es etwa 14.000 Juden in Bosnien und Herzegowina, davon 10.000 in Sarajevo, was etwa 10 Prozent der Stadtbevölkerung ausmachte. Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurden im Unabhängigen Staat Kroatien 10.000 Juden ermordet. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg entschieden sich viele Juden, nach Israel umzusiedeln.
Vor dem Ausbruch des Bosnienkriegs gab es etwa 2.000 Juden in Bosnien und Herzegowina. Während der Auseinandersetzungen wurden die meisten Juden nach Israel evakuiert und ein Großteil von ihnen entschied sich nach dem Ende des Kriegs auch dort zu verbleiben. Im Jahr 2008 leben rund 1000 Juden in Bosnien und Herzegowina, etwa 900 Sephardim und 100 Aschkenasim. Die größte Gemeinde ist die von Sarajevo mit zirka 700 Mitgliedern. Kleinere jüdische Gemeinden gibt es in Banja Luka, Mostar, Tuzla, Doboj und Zenica.
היהודים הראשונים שישבו באזור זה היו יהודים סוחרים מיוון וטורקיה שהיגרו לסראייבו בשנת 1541. הטורקים שישבו במקום, ושלא אהדו את היהודים המעטים שישבו בעיר ביקשו מהשלטונות לבודד את היהודים מהם ואכן, נבנה בעיר סראייבו רובע יהודי בשם צ'יפוט חאן.
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Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Part 1
© Part one of our few days of exploring Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia's 124-yr-old National Museum to close its doors
(4 Oct 2012) SHOTLIST
1. Mid shot of workers attaching sign to roof of the National Museum; reading (Bosnian/English) MUSEUM IS CLOSED
2. Various of National Museum with banner attached to roof
3. Various of protesters chained to inside of museum building, sitting on the floor
4. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Nihad Alickovic, Protester:
We want this museum to work. Tourists are coming into our city, they want to see our culture and history. All the institutions of culture are closed in this city. Is this a deeper game? To destroy the history of this country? They (referring to government officials) all should be ashamed because of this. At the same time, the leadership of the museum should not give up on the museum so easy. Do they think someone (referring to the government) will care because they locked it up. No one cares for sure.
5. Wide of museum officials surrounded by media
6. Mid of man holding Bosnian flag
7. Mid of Director of National Museum of Bosnia, Adnan Busuladzic, holding folder with documents
8. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Adnan Busuladzic, Director of National Museum of Bosnia:
You can only imagine how I feel. This institution, after 124 years of work, is being closed. This is a desperate move. We had to take it. It is not our fault that the museum is closing.
9. Various of director and workers locking up doors and putting closed sign on the door
10. Wide of National Museum with banner attached to roof; reading (Bosnian/English) MUSEUM IS CLOSED
STORYLINE:
Bosnia's 124-year-old national museum closed its doors on Thursday in Sarajevo after disputes among politicians and dwindling state funding.
The 1995 peace agreement that ended Bosnia's war failed to envisage a ministry of culture so the country's oldest and most prestigious cultural institution, whose collection includes the famed 600-year-old Jewish manuscript known as the Sarajevo Haggadah, was left without a guardian.
Director of National Museum of Bosnia, Adnan Busuladzic, said it was an upsetting chance but due to the finances of the museum that had little choice but to close the museum.
You can only imagine how I feel. This institution, after 124 years of work, is being closed. This is a desperate move, he added.
Having not received their salaries for a year, employees first gathered at the fountain in the Museum's botanical garden and threw a coin into it making a wish the institution will reopen soon.
Then they left the building and nailed wooden boards that read closed over the entrance door.
The museum and six other institutions that are the custodians of the country's national heritage, including precious medieval manuscripts, religious relicts, and natural history artefacts are victims of the 1995 peace agreement that ended Bosnia's war.
The agreement split the country along ethnic lines into two semi-autonomous parts linked by a weak central government.
It contains a constitution that has not envisaged a ministry of culture.
This left the seven cultural institutions without a guardian and without funding.
For years they were surviving on donations or often insufficient ad-hoc grants from different layers of government and hoping political leaders of the country's Serb, Croat and Bosniak peoples will agree on what to do with Bosnia's shared historical and cultural heritage, and whether to even preserve it.
But Bosnian Serbs oppose giving the central government control over the cultural sites, with their leaders often insisting that Bosnia is an artificial state that should be dissolved and that each of the country's ethnic groups has its own heritage.
Bosniaks, meanwhile, insist that safeguarding the shared history of the Bosnian people is one way to keep the country unified.
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Sarajevo, Bosnia: Part 1 - Urban Documentation
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The Sarajevo Haggadah, a Jewish illuminated manuscript dating back more than 650 years, has survived everything from the Spanish Inquisition to the Siege of Sarajevo, which began 20 years ago this week. Now it is threatened once again -- this time, by the lack of funding for Sarajevo's cultural institutions. Producer Ricki Green looks at the book's history as Jews around the world celebrate Passover, the holiday when the Haggadah is read.
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Exploring a Synagogue in Sarajevo
I was blessed to get to visit one of the two active Synagogues in Sarajevo recently and it just so happened to be during the Feast of Tabernacles. Here are a few quick thoughts and photos from my time there.
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The most recognisible landmark of Sarajevo is Sebilj, a wooden fountain located on Baščaršija square. The legend says that drinking water from here means that you will come back to Sarajevo surely again. You will find the oldest streets in Sarajevo, and walk through Baščaršija, the liveliest part of the city.
During the Free Walking Tour in Sarajevo organized by Meet Bosnia Travel you can expect to find one of the oldest and biggest mosques in Sarajevo known as Gazi Husrev-bey mosque. Sarajevo tours are our passion. Nearby this extraordinary edifice you will see a unique Clock Tower famous for showing totally unusual time for XX century. We will walk through the oldest shopping center in Sarajevo, the “Bezistan” – old bazaar from the Ottoman period.
The Sarajevo City Hall is the most recognizable Austro-Hungarian-era building in Bosnia. Since 1949 the building served as the National and University Library and now it is the seat of the city council once again.
During this tour in Sarajevo you will hear the story of Sarajevo’s Jewish community existing for almost five centuries. The Old Jewish Temple is within the walking distance of Christian and muslim sacral objects and it hosts an important museum related to jewish traditions and customs in Balkans.
After the spot that says “Sarajevo Meeting of Cultures” the Free Walking Tour Sarajevo will continue in direction of modern Sarajevo connected to the arrival of Habsburg monarchy. One of the iconic buildings on Ferhadija street is the Catholic Cathedral and the statue of Pope John Paul II who visited Bosnia two times. We will talk about Sarajevo roses and famous people that lived in Sarajevo.
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Bosnian FM visits Yad Vashem holocaust museum in Jerusalem
1. Wide of Bosnia and Herzegovina Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj walking into the Hall of Remembrance of Yad Vashem, Holocaust museum and memorial
2. Close up of wreath reading: Bosnia and Herzegovina
3. Close up of Alkalaj
4. Alkalaj lighting eternal flame
5. Close up of flame
5. Alkalaj laying wreath
6. Wide of Yad Vashem, Alkalaj exiting
7. Various of Alkalaj signing guest book
STORYLINE:
Bosnia and Herzegovina Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum and Memorial in Jerusalem on Monday.
Alkalaj walked through the museum section and rekindled a flame which is the centrepiece of the Hall of Remembrance.
Bosnia was home to a large and vibrant Jewish community, especially in the city of Sarajevo, prior to the Nazi occupation of the Balkans when most Jews either fled or were rounded up and deported to death camps.
Some Jewish families were sheltered by their Bosnian Muslim neighbours, a chapter of holocaust history which has been detailed by historians at Yad Vashem.
Some escaped to the Middle East and joined in the migration of what was then British-controlled Palestine and several former Bosnian Jews rose to positions of prominence in Israel.
Israel established diplomatic ties with Bosnia shortly after the break up of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and trade between the two countries is steadily increasing.
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