Yugoslavia

Reporter's Notebook: The two faces of General Ratko Mladic

Three decades after the Bosnian War, he remains a hero to many in Republika Srpska even after his genocide conviction.

|ByALEX WINSTON
Serbian armed forces stand guard as Darko Mladic stands in front of the coffin of his father while taking part in a public memorial on the day of the funeral ceremony for late Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic at St Lukas church in Belgrade, on September 7, 2026.
A POSTCARD depicting the synagogue in Osijek’s Upper Town facing the cathedral. The synagogue was destroyed during the Holocaust.

Crossroads to comeback: Croatia’s Osijek leads minor Balkan Jewish cultural revival

DIASPORA AFFAIRS: This past month the Jewish community in Osijek hosted a whole slew of Jewish cultural activities for both the local Jewish and non-Jewish population.

|ByRONEN SHNIDMAN
Prisoners of the Staro Sajmište concentration camp in Belgrade.

Staro Sajmiste: Belgrade's fairground of death for the Balkans' Jews

From formidable fairground to a camp of death, the dark history of the Nazi camp within Belgrade’s borders

|ByALEX WINSTON
JOSIP BROZ TITO (L) – the communist revolutionary and Yugoslav politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 until his death in 1980 – and Mosa Pijade in Foca, 1942.

From paintbrush to politics: The life of Yugoslavian communist revolutionary Mosa Pijade

Forgotten figure in a no longer extant country: The life and times of the revolutionary artist Mosa Pijade, from paintbrush to politics.

|ByALEX WINSTON

Germany should express remorse over the crimes committed against Serbs - opinion

The UN's Srebrenica resolution has sparked debate over selective historical justice, particularly Germany's role in WWII-era atrocities against Serbs.

AUGUST 18, 2024ByEFRAIM ZUROFF, ALEKSANDAR NIKOLIC
A MEMORIAL stands at the former site of the Crveni Krst concentration camp in Nis, Serbia.

Kosovo isn’t Gaza, and Gaza isn’t Kosovo - comment

War crimes. Genocide. Crimes against humanity. These terms have been repeated so regularly over the past six months concerning Israel’s war against Hamas that they have begun to lose their meaning.

MARCH 25, 2024ByALEX WINSTON
Palestinians at the site of an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 24, 2024.

Holocaust and Srebrenica survivors launch Jewish-Muslim effort to prevent genocides

The event took place Sunday at the Srebrenica Memorial Center, a museum marking the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys

JANUARY 30, 2024ByTOBY AXELROD/JTA
A woman prays next to the graves at Potocari-Srebrenica Memorial, in Potocari, near Srebrenica, Bosnia And Herzegovina July 10, 2020

Kosovo-Serbia: The background to the sirens in the Balkans - explainer

The recent gunfire, sirens and border closings between the two Balkan countries have raised alarms. Here is an explainer on the region's complex history.

AUGUST 1, 2022ByAARON REICH
Kosovo police patrol a road in Zupce, Kosovo August 1, 2022.

Meet the man behind the rising Israel-Serbia ties

Serbia's Chamber of Commerce and Industry opened an office in Jerusalem last month, the seventh of its kind in the world. Its aim is to strengthen commercial and economic ties.

OCTOBER 16, 2021ByMICHAEL FREUND
ALEKSANDAR NIKOLIC, honorary consul of the Republic of Serbia to Israel.

When a personal aliyah becomes a personal mission

Shirah Ozery knew she wanted to make aliyah in when she visited Israel in the summer of 1973. Her professional career surrounded aiding Israel's aliyah missions.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021ByLISA SAMIN
Shirah Ozery: From Long Island, NY to Kfar Ruth, 1973.

Jewish-Croatian sci-fi icon Mira Furlan dies at 65

Furlan fled her native Croatia facing antisemitic and misogynistic threats before coming to the US, starring in iconic roles in 'Babylon 5' and 'Lost.'

JANUARY 25, 2021ByAARON REICH, HAGAY HACOHEN
MIRA FURLAN was a star on the Croatian stage before emigrating to the US.

Former Bosnian Serb general Mladic appeals genocide conviction

Mladic is serving a life sentence after being found guilty of overseeing the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.

AUGUST 25, 2020ByREUTERS
A woman cries at a graveyard, ahead of a mass funeral in Potocari near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina July 11, 2020. Bosnia marks the 25th anniversary of the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys, with many relatives unable to attend due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ou