Moshe ben Rafael Attias, also known as Moshe Rafajlović and Zeki Effendi, was a Bosnian Jew who became a scholar of the Islamic faith and of medieval Persian literature.
Moshe ben Rafael Atijas
Jewish people of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Jewish people of Bosnia and Herzegovina are one of the minority peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to country's constitution. The history of Jews in Bosnia and Herzegovina spans from the arrival of the first Bosnian Jews as a result of the Spanish Inquisition to the survival of the Bosnian Jews through the Holocaust and the Yugoslav Wars. Judaism and the Jewish community in Bosnia and Herzegovina have one of the oldest and most diverse histories of all the former Yugoslav states, and is more than 500 years old, in terms of permanent settlement. Then a self-governing province of the Ottoman Empire, Bosnia was one of the few territories in Europe that welcomed Jews after their expulsion from Spain.
Rabbi Judah Alkalai and his spouse Esther in Vienna in 1874
Laura Papo Bohoreta
Interior of Sarajevo's Old Temple (before 1940)
Višegrad Synagogue (1905-1941)