Abstract: Acknowledgements -- List of Figures, Maps and Tables -- Terms, Definitions, Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction: Like Salt for Bread -- 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 2 Identity, Ethnicity, and Religion in the Lands of the Former Yugoslavia -- 3 The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 1   The Sephardic Strand -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Early Jewish Settlement in Iberia -- 3 The Jews in Medieval Spain -- 3.1  The Visigothic Era -- 3.2  The Moorish Period -- 3.3  The Reconquista Period -- 3.3.1 Decline of the Jewish Position in Christian Spain -- 3.3.2 Conversos, the Crown, and the Inquisition -- 3.3.2.1 The Conversos -- 3.3.2.2 The Inquisition -- 4 Expulsion of the Jews from Iberia and the Journey to the Balkans -- 5 The Jewish Experience in Iberia -- 2   The Jews in the Ottoman Empire -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Iberian Jews Enter the Ottoman Empire -- 3 Sephardic Settlement in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 3.1  Sarajevo -- 3.1.1 Jewish Settlement Patterns in Sarajevo -- 3.2  Smaller Bosnian Jewish Communities -- 3.2.1 Mostar -- 3.2.2 Banja Luka -- 3.2.3 Bihać -- 3.2.4 Travnik -- 3.2.5 Derventa -- 3.2.6 Bijeljina -- 3.2.7 Brčko -- 3.2.8 Žepče -- 3.2.9 Zvornik -- 4 The Ottoman Administration and the Jews -- 5 The Jews and the Ottoman Communal Organization -- 5.1  Dhimmıhood -- 5.2  Taxation of the Dhimmı -- 6 The Sarajevo Megillah -- 7 Ottoman Reforms and the Jews -- 8 The Jews in the Ottoman Economy -- 9 Bosnian Jewish Marital Customs -- 10 Bosnian Jewish Communal Organization -- 10.1  Religious, Social, and Cultural Administration -- 11 The Effect of Messianism on the Ottoman Jews: Shabtai Zvi -- 12 The Decline of the Ottoman Empire -- 12.1  The Effect of the Ottoman Decline on the Bosnian Jews -- 12.2  The Rise of Nationalism -- 13 Sephardic Culture in the Ottoman Empire -- 13.1  Judeo-espanjol -- 14 Spain and the Sephardim -- 15 The Jewish Experience in the Ottoman Empire -- 3   The Ashkenazic Strand -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Origins and Development of the Ashkenazim -- 3 Jewish Relations with Austro-Hungarian Society -- 4 Jewish Communal Administration -- 5 Austro-Hungarian Occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 6 Bosnian Jewish Political Activity -- 7 Bosnian Jewish Demographic Profile -- 8 Bosnian Jewish Socioeconomic Life -- 9 Bosnian Jewish Communal Life -- 10 Bosnian Jewish Religious Life -- 11 Bosnian Jewish Cultural Life: Print, Media, the Arts -- 12 The Bosnian Jews under Austria-Hungary -- 4   The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes/the First Yugoslavia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Balkan Wars -- 3 South Slavic Jews in World War i -- 4 The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes -- 5 Bosnian Jewish Interwar Demographic Profile -- 5.1  Bosnian Jews in the Provinces -- 6 Relations between Bosnian Sephardim and Ashkenazim -- 7 Yugoslav and Bosnian Jewish Interwar Occupational Profile -- 8 Economic Situation of the Bosnian Jews -- 9 Bosnian Jewish Political Activity -- 10 Bosnian Jewish Communal Organization -- 10.1  Zionism -- 10.2  Integrationalism -- 10.3  Diaspora Nationalism -- 10.4  The Local Community -- 10.5  Communal Leadership -- 10.6  Communal Religious Organizations -- 10.7  Communal Religious Leadership -- 10.8  Schools and Language -- 11 Bosnian Jewish Cultural Activity -- 11.1  Jewish Newspapers -- 11.2  Jewish Artists -- 11.3  Jewish Authors, Essayists, Poets -- 12 Bosnian Jewish Social and Charitable/Humanitarian Organizations -- 12.1  La Benevolencija -- 12.2  Other Bosnian Jewish Communal/Humanitarian Organizations -- 12.3  Youth and Workers' Societies -- 13 Bosnian Jews in the Spanish Civil War -- 14 Antisemitism in Interwar Yugoslavia -- 14.1  Bosnian Jewish Response to the Rise of Yugoslav Fascism -- 15 Bosnian Jews in Interwar Yugoslavia -- 5   World War ii -- 1 Introduction: The Collapse of Yugoslavia and the Rise of the Independent State of Croatia -- 2 Bosnian Jewish Demographic Profile in the Independent State of Croatia -- 3 "The Hunt for the Jews" -- 3.1  Bosnian Response to the Establishment of the Independent State of Croatia -- 3.2  Anti-Jewish Legislation -- 3.3  Honorary Aryans -- 4 The Rationale for Impoverishment of the Jewish Population -- 4.1  Theft of Jewish Personal Property -- 4.2  Appointment of Povjerenici for the Plunder of Jewish Businesses -- 4.3  Ustaše Control over Jewish Communal Organizations -- 4.3.1 Plunder of Bosnian Jewish Communal Property -- 5 The Sarajevo Haggadah During World War ii -- 6 Early Violence against the Jews -- 7 Bosnian Jews in the First Months of Occupation -- 8 The Catholic Church in the Independent State of Croatia -- 9 The Islamic Religious Community in the Independent State of Croatia -- 10 The Shoah in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 10.1  Ustaše Establishment of Concentration Camps -- 10.1.1 Deportations of Bosnian Jews -- 10.1.2 Bosnian Jews in Concentration Camps -- 10.1.3 Number of World War ii Bosnian Jewish Victims -- 11 The Italian Zone -- 11.1  Jews in Italy's Zone ii -- 11.1.1 Rab Concentration Camp -- 12 Jewish Participation in the Resistance -- 12.1  Bosnian Jews in the Partisans -- 12.2  Bosnian Jewish Prisoners of War -- 12.3  The Četniks and the Jews -- 13 The Handžar Division -- 14 Holocaust Survivors -- 15 Bosnian Righteous among the Nations -- 16 The Bosnian Jews in World War ii -- 6   The Communist Era -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Popular Identification and Its Impact on Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 2.1  Narod -- 2.2  Narodnost -- 2.3  Etničke Manjine -- 2.4  Evolution of the Concept of Narod -- 3 Bosnian Jewish Relations with the Socialist State and Society -- 3.1  Postwar Reconstruction of the Yugoslav Jewish Community -- 3.2  Jewish Industrial Property -- 3.3  Demographic Profile of the Bosnian Jewish Community -- 3.3.1 The Effect of Aliyah on Bosnian Jewish Demography -- 3.3.2 Occupational Profile of Yugoslav Jews -- 4 Post-World War ii Bosnian Jewish Communal Life -- 4.1  Jewish Communal Organization -- 4.2  Bosnian Jewish Communal Property under Socialism -- 4.2.1 Synagogues -- 4.2.2 Cemeteries -- 5 Bosnian Jewish Cultural Life -- 6 Yugoslav-Israeli Relations and Their Effect on Yugoslavia's Jews -- 7 Antisemitism in Communist Yugoslavia -- 8 Visible Shoah Commemorations -- 9 Yugoslavia's Interethnic Relations -- 9.1  The Collapse of "Brotherhood and Unity" -- 9.2  The Empowerment of Nationalist Leaders -- 10 The Yugoslav Crisis and Its Effects on Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 10.1  The Bosnian Leadership Crisis -- 10.2  Ethnic Politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 11 The Bosnian Jewish Community at the End of Communist Yugoslavia -- 7   War in the 1990s -- 1 Introduction: European Nationalism at the End of the Twentieth Century -- 2 Ancient Ethnic Hatreds? -- 3 The Wars of Yugoslav Succession -- 3.1  Opening Shots of the Bosnian War -- 3.2  The Bosnian War -- 3.2.1 Sarajevo Besieged -- 3.2.2 The International Response to the Bosnian War -- 4 The Role of the Bosnian Jewish Community in the Bosnian War -- 4.1  The Rediscovery of Jewish Identity -- 4.2  The Reestablishment of La Benevolencija -- 4.3  The Bosnian Jewish Community in the Bosnian War -- 4.4  The Organization of the Jewish Community in Besieged Sarajevo -- 4.4.1 The Split Logistical Center -- 4.4.2 La Benevolencija-sponsored Programs -- 4.4.2.1 Magacin (Warehouse) -- 4.4.2.2 Women's Section: Bohoreta -- 4.4.2.3 Health Service -- 4.4.2.4 Pharmacy -- 4.4.2.5 Clinic -- 4.4.2.6 House Visit Program -- 4.4.2.7 People's Kitchen -- 4.4.2.8 Radio Station and Postal Service -- 4.4.2.9 Department for Cultural and Religious Questions -- 4.4.2.10 Computer Center -- 4.4.2.11 Evacuations --

Abstract: 5 The Sarajevo Haggadah During the Bosnian War -- 6 Bosnian Jews in the Bosnian War -- 8   The Postwar Bosnian Jewish Community -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Dayton Peace Accords and Their Implications -- 3 Characterization of the Bosnian War -- 4 Bosnia and Herzegovina and the European Union -- 5 Profile of the Postwar Bosnian Jewish Community -- 5.1  Synagogues and Cemeteries -- 5.2  Sociocultural Condition of the Bosnian Jewish Community -- 6 Bosnian Jewish Involvement in Postwar BiH -- 7 The Sarajevo Haggadah -- 8 The Bosnian View of the Shoah -- 9 Antisemitism in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 10 Expropriation, Nationalization, Restitution in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 10.1  Status of Bosnian Jewish Personal and Communal Property -- 11 The Claims Conference -- 12 Sejdić-Finci -- 13 Bosnian Relations with Israel -- 14 Future Prospects -- Bibliography -- Index   872.

Abstract: This book is the only comprehensive treatment in any language of a rather "exotic" Balkan Jewish community. It places the Jewish community of Bosnia and Herzegovina into the context of the Jewish world, but also of the world within which it existed for around five hundred years under various empires and regimes. The Bosnian Jews might have remained a mostly unknown community to the rest of the world had it not played a unique role within the Bosnian Wars of the early 1990s, providing humanitarian aid to its neighbor Serbs, Croats, and Muslims