Whose Jews? Whose Bosnia? Whose Europe?

• Authors: Fran Markowitz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Bosnia-Herzegovina’s governance depends on a constitution that was drafted in Dayton, Ohio. It designates the Bosniacs, Croats and Serbs (along with Others) the country’s constituent peoples. Although Jews have been residents of Bosnia-Herzegovina for 500 years, with the country’s new constitution they have disappeared from official records into the residual category of Others. This article considers how, nonetheless, the Jews of Sarajevo persist as an active community and a named group even as its identity is being defined by others. The interrelated questions, “Whose Jews? Whose Bosnia? Whose Europe?” have no neat, finite answers while Jews-as-Others and Bosnia as an ethnically divided and overdetermined, EU-supervised country remain precariously perched on unsettled and unsettling configurations of rights and power.

Keywords

EN

MULTICULTURALISM; ETHNIC CONFLICT; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; VIOLENCE; ETHNICITY; IDENTITY; EUROPE

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze
• Journal: Lud
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 96
• Pages: 51-73

Contributors

author

Fran Markowitz

• Ben Gurion University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Be'er-Sheva 84105, Israel