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The Bosnians who speak medieval Spanish

On our way to Sarajevo's Ashkenazi Synagogue for the Friday evening Shabbat (Sabbath) service, my friend Paula Goldman and I walked down cobblestone streets through the Baščaršija, the old Ottoman ... read more

Ottomans Saved the Hungarian Prime Minister's Ancestors; Now He Says Islam Was Never Part of Europe

The Indo-European speaking peoples appear to have begun coming in from Syria ... So too did the (Indo-European) Spanish language and the Slavic languages come into Europe from elsewhere. So too did ... read more

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

Having studied medieval Spain in preparation for our trip, I found uncomfortable echoes with Serbian propaganda. Spain expelled its Jewish population in 1492 followed by Muslims, though ethnically ... read more

Why Sarajevo could lose a 660-year-old Jewish prayer book

The Sarajevo Haggadah has endured the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews from ... and no one but a curator can touch this richly decorated medieval manuscript. 20 Years after the Siege of ... read more

Cecilia Nadal threads through St. Louis’ torn fabric, stitching us all together

Outside, she smiles and says only, “I love how introspective the Bosnians are.” She’s not convinced he ... Somebody just decorated a tree. In a rush of Spanish, Nadal finds out all about Maria’s home, ... read more

Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick (review)

Sephardic culture emerged in medieval Spain, where governmental protection and relatively ... united by religion and the Judeo-Spanish language, developed a culture that looked nostalgically to the ... read more

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV

They are Jews from Spain, and they speak beautiful soft Spanish of the time of Ferdinand and Isabella ... Belgrade gangster politicians have devised this method of insulting us Bosnians,’ said the ... read more

Strangers in the house

Amazingly, it took 10 more years - spanning September 11 and its ongoing, bloody aftermath - for a Turkish-speaking westerner ... if not for the Spanish Muslims' transmission of learning all the way ... read more

Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book

They're a wonderful combination of very familiar Bible stories but through the prism of somebody who's living in medieval Spain, so Pharaoh looks just like a Spanish medieval prince ... because part ... read more

Mitochondrial DNA Variations in Russian and Belorussian Populations

2003); Bosnians and Slovenians (Malyarchuk et al ... In the last few years, data on maternal lineages from Eastern European and Slavonic-speaking populations have started to emerge (e.g. Belyaeva et ... read more