Musée juif de Bosnie-Herzégovine (Muzej Jevreja Bosne i Hercegovine)

Housed in the Sephardic synagogue of Sarajevo (1581, rebuilt in the seventeenth century), this museum traces the Jewish presence in Bosnia since the welcome extended to the exiles from Spain by the Ottoman Empire. It preserves notably the Haggada of Sarajevo (fourteenth century, Barcelona), one of the most precious illuminated Hebrew manuscripts in the world, which was sheltered there during the Second World War and the siege of Sarajevo (1992–1995). The collections include Sephardic costumes, Ottoman documents, and testimonies on communal life in the twentieth century.

Sources & resources

• Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
• Jewish Virtual Library ↗