Bosnia and Herzegovina

The City Council of Zenica has voted unanimously to return the city's synagogue to the Jewish community of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Flory Jagoda, the Bosnian-American composer and interpreter of Ladino songs, passed away on January 29, 2021. She was 97.

The opening of the exhibition and the promotion of the book by Eli Tauber marked the “Sarajevo Purim” at the City Hall in the Bosnian capital.

Cardinal Vinko Puljić, Bosnia’s most senior Catholic clergyman, plans to go forward with hosting a memorial service for Croatian civilians and soldiers of the Nazi-allied Ustasha forces.

The head of the Bosnian Jewish Community, Jakob Finci, and the head of the Jewish Community of Sarajevo, Boris Kozemjakin, expressed their deep hurt and disbelief following an announcement by the Bosnian Catholic Church that a mass will be held in memory of facists killed at Bleiburg in 1945.

The Jewish community of Sarajevo is drawing on its experiences during the brutal siege of the city, which started 28 years ago, in order to guide them through the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic.