DOPRINOS ZDRAVSTVENIH RADNIKA JEVREJSKOG PORIJEKLA RAZVOJU ZDRAVSTVENE DJELATNOSTI U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI
CONTRIBUTION OF JEWISH ORIGIN HEALTH WORKERS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTHCARE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: Jewish health-care workers in Bosnia and Herzegovina have had a very constructive and positive impact on the organization of health-care activities in times of emergency and war in order to deal with the many health problems facing the country, and in particular the range of contagious and non-contagious diseases. Both qualified and semi-skilled health-care workers passed on their knowledge to their descendants and successors. They occupied leading positions in many eminent health-care institutions, and were highly effective in leading teams of field workers to eradicate contagious diseases in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For centuries, particularly during the Ottoman period, the Jews were in a sense an international factor, forming a link between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the rest of the world, especially the West, from Italy to Holland and beyond. They have been prominent as an urban element in economic life and development at all times from the Ottoman period through the Austro-Hungarian and Yugoslav periods to this day. It was they who provided Bosnia and Herzegovina with its first academically-trained citizens in various fields: the natural sciences, law, medicine, pharmacology, dentistry, and every aspect of health-care. Their involvement in science and the arts has also been of outstanding importance, from founding the first cultural and artistic societies to their vital contribution to the development of progressive thought as a whole in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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