Contribution to the Study of Cultural Identity of Jews in Bosnia and Herzegovina During the Ottoman Rule Cover Image

Prilog proučavanju kulturnog identiteta bosanskohercegovačkih Jevreja za vrijeme Osmanskog Carstva
Contribution to the Study of Cultural Identity of Jews in Bosnia and Herzegovina During the Ottoman Rule

Author(s): Sarina Bakić
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, History of Judaism, Culture and social structure , The Ottoman Empire
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka - Univerzitet u Sarajevu
Keywords: Jews; Bosnia and Herzegovina; culture; identity; Ottoman Empire;

Summary/Abstract: Conception of Jewish cultural identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina is inseparable from historical conditionality that had tackled all nations in this region regardless of their different statuses and identities. This article will aim to provide certain contribution related to researching some of the main peculiarities of cultural streams in the period of Ottoman Empire, which gave out specific and universal determinations to Jews as well and within environment where they lived and worked in. It is doubtless that Jews in Bosnia and Herzegovina in this specific historical period have created an elements of distinctive culture and that culture was and remained up to now a part of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s overall culture, its cultural and historical heritage as well.

  • Issue Year: XI/2022
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 71-79
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bosnian