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some european history you probably missed

Jews arrived to Bosnia and Herzegovina around the middle of the 16th century.   The first monuments in Jewish cemeteries originate from 1551 in  Kovačići.  Within a short time Jews built homes, schools, and synagogues in towns around the region.


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Gazi-Husrev Beg's Mosque, Sarajevo
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Old Jewish Cemetary, Sarajevo
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Sarajevo Haggadah
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Sevdah music played at Hajji Šaban's Tavern, Benbaša, Sarajevo. Source: http://bit.ly/1XjSLkx
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The Hardaga Family, who saved Jewish friends and neighbors in Sarajevo during WWII
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La Benevolencija, a Jewish Sarajevo organization that distributed aid during The Bosnian War
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