Sarajevo

Fran Markowitz is a professor of cultural anthropology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and the author of Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Russia and A Community in Spite of Itself: Soviet Jewish Émigrés in New York.

"Markowitz dispels widely held myths that Sarajevo has become a purely Muslim city. . . . The author's many insights into Sarajevo and its kaleidoscope of inhabitants are welcome and valuable."Slavic Review"A warm and well-written portrait of Sarajevo during its first post-war decade."--Journal of the Royal Anthropological institute"Markowitz has succeeded in combining a solid work of scholarship with a personal take on her subject which she explores in a very thorough and balanced way.  This is a rich contribution to the scholarship on the issue of identify in present-day Bosnia & Hercegovina and deserves a wide audience, appealing to both the academic and general reader."--Europe-Asia Studies

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsPhotosTablesAcknowledgmentsPronunciation GuideBosnia-Herzegovina and Neighboring CountriesIntroductions1. Meeting and Greeting the City1. Sarajevo's Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart2. Ecce Homo sculpture and Sarajevo's Serbian Orthodox Cathedral3. Grave of a Bosnian šehid in a Sarajevo municipal park4. "Pershing Missile" minaret2. Practices of Place: Living in and Enlivening Sarajevo5. Sarajevo's Baščaršija6. Šetanje on Tito Street, April 20087. Šetanje on Ferhadija, April 20048. The eternal flame to Tito's multiethnic Partisans9. The Vijećnica, June 2004Bosniacs, Croats, and Serbs: The Constituent Nationsof Bosnia-Herzegovina3. National Legibility: Lines of History, Surges of Ethnicity10. "Don't Forget Srebrenica"11. Dobrinja, August 200212. Welcome to Republika Srpska, August 200213. Mostar's newly rebuilt Stari Most, June 20044. Census and Sensibility: Confirming the Constitution1. Bosnia-Herzegovina's Population according to Ethnicity, 19912. Comparative Enumerations of Sarajevo, 1991 and 20023. Solidifying Bosniac IdentityOstali: The Other People(s) of Bosnia-Herzegovina5. Where Have All the Yugoslavs, Slovenes, and Gypsies Gone?4. National Belonging in Marriage Registration Data14. A postcard showing Gypsy children15. Gypsy squatters6. Sarajevo's Jews: One Community among the Others16. Detail, Sarajevo's Ashkenazi synagogue17. Zoran Mandlbaum at the Mostar gravesite of his mother18. The Sarajevo Haggadah7. Insisting on Bosnia-Herzegovina: Bosnian Hybridity19. A display of T-shirts for sale in the Baščaršija5. Bosnian and Undeclared Affiliations in Marriage Registration Data20. A Bosnian house in Marjindvor21. A stečak, medieval tombstoneConclusion8. After Yugoslavia, after War, after All: Sarajevo's Cultural LegaciesGlossaryNotesReferencesIndexBack cover