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CONTRIBUTORS
SVEN ALKALAJ is the ambassador of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the
United States, the first to serve in this position. He was formerly a prominent businessman
with “Energoinvest” Sarajevo, the largest company in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Born in
1948, he is a descendant of a well-known Jewish family in Sarajevo which traces its
ancestry to Spain's “Golden Age” of Sephardic Jewry.
JEAN AMÉRY was one of Europe's most profound critics and essayists. Fleeing his
native Vienna after the proclamation of the Nuremberg Laws, he joined the Resistance in
Belgium, where he was subsequently captured by the Gestapo and sent to a series of
concentration camps. After the war, he made his home in Belgium until his death in 1978. At
the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities is his
unflinching analysis of his own inner world as a Holocaust victim and survivor.
SMAIL BALI, a leading expert on oriental languages, Arab-Islamic history, and
Bosnian culture, was born in Mostar in 1920 and earned his doctorate at the University of
Vienna. He lived in Vienna for many years, where he lectured on the Turkish language at the
Superior School of Commerce. Currently he is a professor in the Department of Islamic-
Theological Studies at the University of Sarajevo. Through his scholarly work he seeks to
strengthen the cultural and national identity of his people, the Muslim-Bosnians. He is the
author of Das unbekannte Bosnien (The unknown Bosnia).
MOSHE BEJSKI was born in Poland and was interned in several concentration camps
during World War II. He immigrated to Palestine in 1945 where he subsequently served as