[Op-Ed Tuesday] In honor of #HolocaustRemembranceDay, here is an excellent piece by Pina Sadar on staying human and learning from a more positive past of interfaith living and cooperation of Jews and Muslims in the #Balkans. The importance of interfaith empathy in combating fascism is not a novel idea, with the Holocaust itself offering countless inspiring examples, especially of Jewish-Muslim cooperation. Numerous of them are set in the ethnically and religiously diverse Balkans. Muslim Albania, for example, offered exile to Jews who fled Nazi persecution and was hence the only country in Europe where the Jewish population increased during the WWII. Sarajevo Hagaddah, one of the most important Hebrew manuscripts in the world, was safeguarded by a Muslim during the war period, whilst numerous Muslim individuals across the Balkans sheltered Jews in their homes and offered them protection on the streets.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:46:45 +0000
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