Organization
Sarajevo Historical Archives is a public institution in Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina, that exist from 1948. They deal with archival holdings, documents and collections of different provenience starting from mid 16th century until today. The amount of material that they have is huge and give them a lot of opportunities for different types of activities like publishing their inventories of interesting archival holdings/funds, excerpts from important documents, biographies and other kind of publications of famous persons through history, preparing exhibitions, different kinds of public presentations, like open days, week of archives, etc. Also, they have a special library which contain about 15.000 titles in the field of archival science, history, philosophy, geography, law, etc. They are open every day helping people to fulfill their legal rights regarding properties, education, work and so on. Also, all kind of research are done in our Archives which mean that we are constantly interconnecting with people, locally, as well as abroad.
Project
One of the important personal funds that they keep in their Archives is Papo Laura Bohoreta – Sarajevo (O-BP-168). She was born as Luna Levi, was a writer, a Sephardi Jew and lived in a period 1891-1941, mainly in Sarajevo. She was also socially engaged women in Sarajevo and Bosnia or Yugoslavia of that time, and can also be considered as a feminist. She was very aloud when speaking about women, especially, Sephardic Jewish women, defending their status in a society. Bohoreta also writes about everyday life of Jewish communities of that time, and her writings can be categorized as a novels and dramas which means some might be put up on a scene as a play. She wrote in ladino language.
That was one of the starting points in our idea for this project. The material that they keep are Laura’s original handwritings and are described according to standards of archival science. So far, one book of her three plays are published, but they are planning to publish her other works and also try to implement idea of putting her dramas on a theater scene. Also, they would like to digitize and microfilm her writings to be available online for research, but before that her texts should be transcribed and translated into Bosnian, Spanish, Hebrew
and English, possibly in some other languages.
W: http://www.arhivsa.ba/wordpress/
Contact: Sarajevo Historical Archives
Alipašina 19, 71000 Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Herzegovina ;
E: has@arhivsa.ba
E1: historijski.arhiv.sarajevo@gmail.com
E2: almira.alibasic@gmail.com
T: +387 33 20 97 37
Please find more about the project in the appendix.