Webwatch: Extensive information on Jewish sites in Bosnia-Herzegovina

The website www.Jewish-Heritage-Europe.eu has added extensive information about Jewish heritage sites in: Bosnia-Herzegovina. Jewish-Heritage-Europe.eu has been gradually adding substantive information on hundreds of little-known Jewish sites in more than forty European countries. The Bosnia report, which has information about more than 50 sites in 27 localities relies heavily on information in two reports supported by the United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad based on research by Ruth Ellen Gruber and Ivan Čerešnješ. Čerešnješ, a researcher at the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University is former president of the Jewish Community of Sarajevo. The United States Commission was active in Bosnia as a major funder of the restoration of the ceremonial hall/synagogue at the Jewish cemetery in Sarajevo.