A Legacy of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a Focus on Sarajevo

Esther Gitman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

353 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-0499-4 (ISBN)

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In this book, Esther Gitman, a Holocaust survivor from Sarajevo, documents the saga of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a focus on Sarajevo, her birthplace. The book features an examination of archival documents from Sarajevo, Zagreb, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC and more. The ground-breaking work reveals the many facets of Jewish life in Yugoslavia from the time of their expulsion from Spain and Portugal in 1492. This book provides an in-depth look at the integral role the Sephardic Jews, from the Hebrew word for Spain, played in the broader development of the city. More broadly, the book provides readers with a glimpse into a community which saw seventy percent of its members annihilated during WWII.

Esther Gitman pursued her PhD in Jewish Studies on the foundation of a successful business career. She sought to understand the circumstances of the rescue and survival, including her own, of Jews from the Nazis and the Ustaše, (Croatian Fascists). Gitman, who survived in Italy, returned to Sarajevo in 1945.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-0364-0499-4 / 1036404994
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-0499-4 / 9781036404994
Zustand	Neuware