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To: dc27

Bosnian, not Croat.

Quite possibly a Bosniak and therefore Muslim, though I haven’t seen any discussion of his religion.

Bosnian is a term for a region. Most inhabitants are Muslim Bosniaks, though there are lots of Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats. Considerable groups of all three became refugees.


37 posted on 12/06/2014 8:38:12 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
There are also other ethnic groups present in Bosnia in smaller numbers, including Jews and Roma (Gypsies).

Apparently there are now about 1,000 Jews in Bosnia. Many of them are of Sephardic origin, descended from the Jews who left Spain. Ivo Andric in his novel Bosnian Chronicle (set in the Napoleonic era) has an interesting depiction of the Sephardic Jews in Travnik. In his more famous novel, The Bridge on the Drina, he depicts an Ashkenazi Jewish woman who settles in Visegrad after the Austro-Hungarian occupation begins--she is one of the major characters in that section of the novel.

During the siege of Sarajevo (1992-1995) the Jews in Sarajevo took advantage of their "neutral" status, not tied to the three major groups, to help people get out of Sarajevo and to get drugs and food to people trapped in Sarajevo.

48 posted on 12/06/2014 4:30:52 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Sherman Logan
There are also other ethnic groups present in Bosnia in smaller numbers, including Jews and Roma (Gypsies).

Apparently there are now about 1,000 Jews in Bosnia. Many of them are of Sephardic origin, descended from the Jews who left Spain. Ivo Andric in his novel Bosnian Chronicle (set in the Napoleonic era) has an interesting depiction of the Sephardic Jews in Travnik. In his more famous novel, The Bridge on the Drina, he depicts an Ashkenazi Jewish woman who settles in Visegrad after the Austro-Hungarian occupation begins--she is one of the major characters in that section of the novel.

During the siege of Sarajevo (1992-1995) the Jews in Sarajevo took advantage of their "neutral" status, not tied to the three major groups, to help people get out of Sarajevo and to get drugs and food to people trapped in Sarajevo.

49 posted on 12/06/2014 4:30:52 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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