This book analyses issues of language and Jewish identity among the Sephardim in Sarajevo. The author examines how Sephardim belonging to three different generations in Sarajevo deal with the challenge of cultivating hybrid and hyphenated identities under destabilizing condition…
Sarajevo 1914: sparking the First World War
"In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. This key event in 20th-century history continues to fascinate the public imagination, yet few historians have examined in depth the regional context which allowed this assassination to h…
Sarajevo 1914: sparking the first world war
"In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. This key event in 20th-century history continues to fascinate the public imagination, yet few historians have examined in depth the regional context which allowed this assassination to h…
This thesis explores the phenomenon of the theater under the siege in Sarajevo (1992-1995) as a political act. In defining the political, I resort to the work of Jacques Ranciere and his theoretical development of what constitutes a political act and a political subject. I focus…
This dissertation tells the story of Sarajevo during the Second World War. Beginning with a sketch of the city on the eve of war—when Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox Serbs, and Jews lived and worked together—it traces how these communities interacted with one another through variou…
Contrary to earlier depictions of an Islamic city as religiously isolated and economically stagnant, Sarajevo's emergence as in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is emblematic of a unified new Muslim community whose conversion to Islam and booming socio-economic growth …
"In Blue Helmets and Black Markets, Peter Andreas traces the interaction between these formal front-stage and informal backstage activities, arguing that this created and sustained a criminalized war economy and prolonged the conflict in a manner that served various interests on…
This dissertation examines how the urban poor in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) cope with trauma and rebuild their lives in a new post-war state and economy. The dissertation is based on twenty months of fieldwork with relief agencies and their beneficiaries. I carried out p…
This history of the city of Sarajevo during the Second World War examines the strategies of various ethnic and religious minorities in dealing with the brutal Ustasha regime. Greble (history, City College of New York) presents a clear and dramatic narrative outlining the lengths…
This history of the city of Sarajevo during the Second World War examines the strategies of various ethnic and religious minorities in dealing with the brutal Ustasha regime. Greble (history, City College of New York) presents a clear and dramatic narrative outlining the lengths…