Monthly Archives: September 2016

Now, back to the Jews of Sarajevo. The Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed at the end of World War I and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formed in 1918. In a 1921 census, Sarajevo had 70,000 residents and 10,000 claimed …

And so it begins – assassination and aftermath. Immediately after the assassination, the Sarajevo police had both Čabrinović and Princip (who also failed in his attempt to commit suicide) in custody. By the following day, 29 June 1914, their interrogation …

On 28 June 1914, near the Latin Bridge in Sarajevo, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were shot by Gavrilo Princip – a political assassination that triggered World War I. History often portrays it as that simple. It’s not. …

A place unlike anywhere else in Europe. Life in Sarajevo but especially in the market in the 16th and 17th centuries was likely shocking, exotic, and perhaps bordering on incomprehensible to the Europeans who came to trade there. Sarajevo was …

I’ve called Sarajevo a city of contrasts not because of the juxtaposition of old and new such as the remains of a 16th century inn excavated mere meters from our newly renovated hotel; nor because the city has always had a …