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Bosnian Jewry: A Small Community Meets a Unique Challenge During the 1990s War

September 16, 2007 | Ivan Ceresnjes

During wars, Jewish communities often become scapegoats and victims of the combatants. In the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the early 1990s, the opposite happened. The Jewish community in the country’s capital Sarajevo extended humanitarian services indiscriminately to people of all religions and was respected by the three warring parties, Muslims, Orthodox Serbs, and Roman Catholic Croats. At present, six Jewish communities remain in Bosnia-Herzegovina with a total of a thousand members.

Restitution Issues and the Activism of American Jews

March 1, 2004 | Stuart E. Eizenstat

Stuart Eizenstat has influenced American government policy over the years in various areas. He served in several high-level positions under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, the last of which was deputy secretary of the treasury. Jewish communities abroad will remember his major contributions as special representative of the president and secretary of state for Holocaust-era issues.

THE ROLE OF NON-JEWISH AUTHORITIES IN RESOLVING CONFLICTS WITHIN JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD

October 30, 2000 | Moshe Rosman

This article presents examples of four categories of Jewish communal conflict in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries where non-Jewish authorities were called upon to resolve the strife. The categories are: supracommunal disputes; intracommunal struggles between the community establishment and rival factions over institutional legitimacy; conflicts between communal institutions and powerful individuals; and disputes between individual Jews. The author concludes that while non-Jewish intervention usually was at the behest of at least one of the Jewish parties, such intervention was always according to the authorities interests and both resulted from and contributed to the weakening of Jewish autonomous institutions.

The Organizational Framework of the Jewish Communities in Italy

October 27, 1993 | Yaakov A. Lattes

The New Status of the Italian Jewish Community

June 15, 1988

The Last Jews in India and Burma

April 15, 1988

Jews on the Move: The New Wave of Jewish Migration and its Implications for Organized Jewry

January 10, 1982