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Emily Greble, Sarajevo, 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler’s Europe<\/em>, Cornell University Press, 2011<\/p>\n

\nEmily Greble<\/a>\r\n\t \t\t
Emily Greble is Assistant Professor of History at the City College of New York. She received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in East European history from Stanford University and a B.A. in history with highest honors at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. For her Diane and Howard Wohl Fellowship, Dr. Greble is conducting research for her project, \u201cNegotiating Muslim Identity through the Holocaust: Political Responses, Legal Rifts, and Cultural Repercussions in Wartime Yugoslavia.\u201d Dr. Greble\u2019s publications include the manuscript A City Apart: Sarajevo in the Second World War (Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2011) and several articles, including, \u201cWhen Croatia Needed Serbs: Genocide and Nationalism in Sarajevo (1941-1942)\u201d in Slavic Review (Spring 2009), \u201cPreispitanje Historije i Historiografije Jugoslavije tokom drugog svjetkog rata: Slu\u010daj Sarajeva\u201d [Rethinking History and Historiography of Yugoslavia during World War II: The Case of Sarajevo] in Zbornik radova: Revizija pro\u0161losti na prostorima biv\u0161e Jugoslavije [Proceedings from the Conference \u201cRevision of the Past in the Former Yugoslavia\u201d] (2007), and \u201cPosljednji mjeseci ratnog perioda: Sarajevska Iskustva\u201d [The Last Months of the War: The Experience of Sarajevo] in Zbornik radova: 60 godina od zavr\u0161etka Drugog svjetskog rata \u2013 kako se sje\u0107ati 1945. Godine [Proceedings from the Conference \u201cSixty Years since the End of World War II \u2013 How to Remember 1945\u201d] (2006). Dr. Greble is the recipient of fellowships and grants for her research, including the American Council of Learned Societies Postdoctoral Fellowship, a fellowship at the Remarque Institute, New York University, and a fellowship at the Belfer Center, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In 2007, she participated in the summer research workshop \u201cAntisemitism and the Churches of Eastern Europe\u201d at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is fluent in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, and has reading proficiency in French, German, and Czech.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\"Sarajevo,<\/p>\n

On April 15, 1941, Sarajevo fell to Germany’s 16th Motorized Infantry Division.The city, along with the rest of Bosnia, was incorporated into the Independent State of Croatia, one of the most brutal of Nazi satellite states run by the ultranationalist Croat Ustasha regime.<\/p>\n

The occupation posed an extraordinary set of challenges to Sarajevo’s famously cosmopolitan culture and its civic consciousness; these challenges included humanitarian and political crises and tensions of national identity.<\/p>\n

As detailed for the first time in Emily Greble’s book, the city\u2019s complex mosaic of confessions (Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish) and ethnicities (Croat, Serb, Jew, Bosnian Muslim, Roma, and various other national minorities) began to fracture under the Ustasha regime\u2019s violent assault on “Serbs, Jews, and Roma”\u2014contested categories of identity in this multiconfessional space\u2014tearing at the city\u2019s most basic traditions.<\/p>\n

Nor was there unanimity within the various ethnic and confessional groups: some Catholic Croats detested the Ustasha regime while others rode to power within it; Muslims quarreled about how best to position themselves for the postwar world, and some cast their lot with Hitler and joined the ill-fated Muslim Waffen SS.<\/p>\n

In time, these centripetal forces were complicated by the Yugoslav civil war, a multisided civil conflict fought among Communist Partisans, Chetniks (Serb nationalists), Ustashas, and a host of other smaller groups.<\/p>\n

The absence of military conflict in Sarajevo allows Greble to explore the different sides of civil conflict, shedding light on the ways that humanitarian crises contributed to civil tensions and the ways that marginalized groups sought political power within the shifting political system.<\/p>\n

There is much drama in these pages: In the late days of the war, the Ustasha leaders, realizing that their game was up, turned the city into a slaughterhouse before fleeing abroad. The arrival of the Communist Partisans in April 1945 ushered in a new revolutionary era, one met with caution by the townspeople.<\/p>\n

Greble tells this complex story with remarkable clarity. Throughout, she emphasizes the measures that the city\u2019s leaders took to preserve against staggering odds the cultural and religious pluralism that had long enabled the city\u2019s diverse populations to thrive together.<\/p>\n

“Emily Greble has written a marvelously subtle history of multicultural Sarajevo during World War II, when the city’s traditions and loyalties were tested in the most divisive way. This is a grand justification of local historical research and of search for continuities that are often overlooked in overly schematic historical writing. Neglected Bosnia shines through this fine book in all of its severe beauty.”\u2014Ivo Banac, Bradford Durfee Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University<\/p>\n

“With her remarkably detailed research Emily Greble offers a fascinating account of Sarajevo in wartime, analyzing the traumatic upheaval of an immensely complex urban society. This extraordinary book will be indispensable for anyone interested in Bosnia and the history of Yugoslavia, but it also gives European historians a whole new perspective on World War II.”\u2014Larry Wolff, New York University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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