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Bosnian Jews Bosanski Jevreji Босански Јевреји יהודים בוסניים
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The Jewish people of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serbo-Croatian: Jevreji Bosne i Hercegovine; Jevrejski narod Bosne i Hercegovine) are one of the minority peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to country's constitution. The history of Jews in Bosnia and Herzegovina spans from the arrival of the first Bosnian Jews as a result of the Spanish Inquisition to the survival of the Bosnian Jews through the Holocaust and the Yugoslav Wars. Judaism and the Jewish community in Bosnia and Herzegovina have one of the oldest and most diverse histories of all the former Yugoslav states, and is more than 500 years old, in terms of permanent settlement. Then a self-governing province of the Ottoman Empire, Bosnia was one of the few territories in Europe that welcomed Jews after their expulsion from Spain.
At its peak, the Jewish community of Bosnia and Herzegovina numbered between 14,000 and 22,000 members in 1941. Of those, 12,000 to 14,000 lived in Sarajevo, comprising 20% of the city's population.[2]
Today, there are 281 Jews living in Bosnia and Herzegovina, recognised as a national minority. They have good relations with their non-Jewish neighbors.[3][4][5][6]
Sephardi Jewish couple from Sarajevo in traditional clothing. Photo taken in 1900.
^Konačni rezultati Popisa 2013 KNJIGA 2 – ETNIČKANACIONALNA PRIPADNOST,VJEROISPOVJEST, MATERNJI JEZIK/ NATIONALITY,RELIGION,LANGUAGE. Federalni zavod za statistiku. 13 April 2017.
^"Bosnia-Herzegovina". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
^Cite error: The named reference Sarajevo-Rose was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Cite error: The named reference JDC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i stanova u Bosni i Hercegovini ETNIČKA/NACIONALNA PRIPADNOST, VJEROISPOVJEST I MATERNJI JEZIK" (PDF). Popis 2013. 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 July 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
^""יודן" וצלבי קרס על מבנים בבוסניה". ערוץ 7 (in Hebrew). 23 July 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
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