Whose Jews? Whose Bosnia? Whose Europe?

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)51-73
Number of pages23
JournalLud
Volume96
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2012

Keywords

  • Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • Ethnic conflict
  • Ethnicity
  • Europe
  • Identity
  • Multiculturahsm
  • Violence

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Cultural Studies
  • Anthropology

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