Yugoslavia

Crossroads to comeback: Croatia’s Osijek leads minor Balkan Jewish cultural revival

DIASPORA AFFAIRS: This past month the Jewish community in Osijek hosted a whole slew of Jewish cultural activities for both the local Jewish and non-Jewish population.

A POSTCARD depicting the synagogue in Osijek’s Upper Town facing the cathedral. The synagogue was destroyed during the Holocaust.
 Prisoners of the Staro Sajmište concentration camp in Belgrade.

Staro Sajmiste: Belgrade's fairground of death for the Balkans' Jews

 JOSIP BROZ TITO (L) – the communist revolutionary and Yugoslav politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 until his death in 1980 – and Mosa Pijade in Foca, 1942.

From paintbrush to politics: The life of Yugoslavian communist revolutionary Mosa Pijade

 A MEMORIAL stands at the former site of the Crveni Krst concentration camp in Nis, Serbia.

Germany should express remorse over the crimes committed against Serbs - opinion


Kosovo isn’t Gaza, and Gaza isn’t Kosovo - comment

War crimes. Genocide. Crimes against humanity. These terms have been repeated so regularly over the past six months concerning Israel’s war against Hamas that they have begun to lose their meaning.

 Palestinians at the site of an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 24, 2024.

Holocaust and Srebrenica survivors launch Jewish-Muslim effort to prevent genocides

The event took place Sunday at the Srebrenica Memorial Center, a museum marking the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys

 A woman prays next to the graves at Potocari-Srebrenica Memorial, in Potocari, near Srebrenica, Bosnia And Herzegovina July 10, 2020

Kosovo-Serbia: The background to the sirens in the Balkans - explainer

The recent gunfire, sirens and border closings between the two Balkan countries have raised alarms. Here is an explainer on the region's complex history.

 Kosovo police patrol a road in Zupce, Kosovo August 1, 2022.

Meet the man behind the rising Israel-Serbia ties

Serbia's Chamber of Commerce and Industry opened an office in Jerusalem last month, the seventh of its kind in the world. Its aim is to strengthen commercial and economic ties.

 ALEKSANDAR NIKOLIC, honorary consul of the Republic of Serbia to Israel.

When a personal aliyah becomes a personal mission

Shirah Ozery knew she wanted to make aliyah in when she visited Israel in the summer of 1973. Her professional career surrounded aiding Israel's aliyah missions.

 Shirah Ozery: From Long Island, NY to Kfar Ruth, 1973.

Jewish-Croatian sci-fi icon Mira Furlan dies at 65

Furlan fled her native Croatia facing antisemitic and misogynistic threats before coming to the US, starring in iconic roles in 'Babylon 5' and 'Lost.'

MIRA FURLAN was a star on the Croatian stage before emigrating to the US.

Former Bosnian Serb general Mladic appeals genocide conviction

Mladic is serving a life sentence after being found guilty of overseeing the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.

A woman cries at a graveyard, ahead of a mass funeral in Potocari near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina July 11, 2020. Bosnia marks the 25th anniversary of the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys, with many relatives unable to attend due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ou