Article: Sarajevo, Center of Sephardism

Schwartz, Stephen
Forward
08-15-2003
Of the friends I have made in my Balkan travels, there is nobody alive who
is dearer to me, in certain respects, than professor Muhamed Nezirovic of
the University of Sarajevo. Born in Sarajevo in 1934, in the mixed Muslim
and Serb mahala, or neighborhood, of Nadmlini, Hamo -- as he is universally
known -- and his family had strong personal links with the Sephardic
business community. Indeed, one of his uncles, although Muslim, was a
member of the Jewish choral society, Lira, and toured Palestine with it in
the mid-1930s, while an aunt often spoke bitterly of the arrest by the
Nazis of her three Jewish women friends, Mazalika, Mazalta and Ordunja. She
protested ...

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