Explore every episode of the podcast Remembering Yugoslavia
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| Saving Motel Plitvice | 15 sept. 2025 | 00:22:25 | |
An amateur photographer's quest to preserve the history of an iconic building. With Nik Maierle. * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.
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| [Fragment] Media & Me | 18 août 2025 | 00:18:11 | |
A memoir through the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav media. With Lara Ranković (Mediji i ja). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.
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| [Fragment] The Track | 04 août 2025 | 00:18:39 | |
A documentary film about Sarajevo’s Olympic bobsled and luge track and the people who ride it. With Ryan Sidhoo (The Track). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.
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| [Fragment] IKEA for YU | 21 juil. 2025 | 00:20:35 | |
A documentary filmmaker's search for a post-Yugoslav identity at home and abroad. With Marija Ratković Vidaković (IKEA for YU). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.
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| [Redux] The Origin Story of Remembering Yugoslavia | 08 juil. 2025 | 00:27:39 | |
Remembering Yugoslavia the podcast is FIVE years old! A gift to you in celebration of our 5th birthday: a reverse episode with me as the guest expanding on the podcast's origin story. Plus travel, socialism, and Yugonostalgia* * *. With Peter Korchnak (Remembering Yugoslavia). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended, ad-free episode featuring extra interview footage, stories, and analysis; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.
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| [Redux] You Go, You Go, Yugo | 07 juil. 2025 | 00:17:57 | |
Remembering Yugoslavia the podcast is FIVE years old! A gift to you in celebration of our 5th birthday: a revised and remastered version of the podcast's inaugural episode. There's a company in Zagreb that rents and gives tours in Yugo cars. Let's go for a ride! With Antonija Buntak (Yugocar Adventure) and Božo the Red Yugo. Birthday song by Ekrem Jevrić and Svega City. * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.
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| Fjaka YU | 30 juin 2025 | 00:34:00 | |
The untranslatable word fjaka describes "a very particular state of mind when you desire nothing more than to gaze off into the distance and abandon all forms of activity. It's “the art of doing nothing" and "a yearning for nothingness." It's also the title of the latest book of travel writing about the former Yugoslavia, out of Poland. With Aleksandra Wojtaszek (Fjaka: Sezon na Chorwację / Fjaka: Chorvátska sezóna; Fjaka: A Croatian Season). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.
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| Nonaligned Movement: After Yugoslavia | 17 juin 2025 | 01:08:10 | |
The post-Cold War / post-Yugoslav history of the Nonaligned Movement. Vestiges and legacy of nonalignment in Yugoslavia and elsewhere. The future of nonalignment and of explorations thereof. With Rima Sabina Aouf, Agustín Cosovschi, Natalija Dimić Lompar, Ljiljana Kolešnik, Petra Matić, Goran Musić, Bojana Piškur, Ljubica Spaskovska, and Paul Stubbs. Featuring music by SZ (Creative Commons), Tolga Maktay (courtesy of Kosha Musika), Tetouze, and phrex (Creative Commons). Part 7 of 7. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended episode featuring additional commentary, analysis, stories, and music. Exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.
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| Nonaligned Movement: Limits | 26 mai 2025 | 00:39:57 | |
Nonalignment had its limits. For all its accolades and accomplishments, for all its pomp and prestige, the Nonaligned Movement constantly bumped against reality. All that Yugoslavia achieved with its foreign policy of nonalignment must be placed side by side with all that it could not. With Agustín Cosovschi, Natalija Dimić Lompar, and Damir Vučićević. Featuring music by Duo Aguayo Huayamabe (courtesy of Caife) and Jazzaria (Creative Commons). Part 6 of 7. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended episode featuring additional commentary, analysis, stories, and music. Exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.
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| Nonaligned Movement: Education | 05 mai 2025 | 00:40:26 | |
Student scholarships were a huge part of Yugoslavia’s nonaligned diplomacy and one of the most tangible and visible ways Yugoslav citizens experienced nonalignment. Between 1955 and 1984, Yugoslavia granted nearly 8,000 scholarships to young people from 90 political parties, liberation movements, and countries of the Global South, with foreign students receiving professional, military, and university training and education in the country for various periods. But the program also had an ugly side: discrimination and racism (PLUS). With Rima Sabina Aouf, Leonora Dugonjic-Rodwin, and Peter Wright, plus Goran Musić, Žiga Smolič, Paul Stubbs, and Damir Vučićević. Featuring music by Gofret (courtesy of Arsivplak) and Yangaman Bob (Dig This Way Records). Part 5 of 7. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended episode featuring additional commentary, stories, analysis, archival footage, and music. Exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.
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| Nonaligned Movement: Arts and Culture | 15 avr. 2025 | 00:47:33 | |
Yugoslavia pursued its own socialist path in the realm of culture, too, exporting its production to the Global South to showcase its progress. Though the Nonaligned Movement lacked a policy on culture, cultural cooperation was part and parcel of decolonization and peaceful coexistence. In the process, a global network of cultural exchanges and a distinct version of modernism (PLUS) developed. With Bojana Piškur and Ljiljana Kolešnik. Featuring music by Baligh Hamdi and Koudede, courtesy of Sublime Frequencies. Part 4 of 7. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended episode featuring additional commentary, stories, analysis, archival footage, and music. Exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.
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| Nonaligned Movement: Economy | 24 mars 2025 | 00:37:12 | |
Self-management was at the core of the identity of Yugoslav socialism and its best export. It was an outgrowth of nonalignment, the domestic expression of Yugoslavia's aspirations to play a global role and differentiate itself from the two power blocs. Yugoslavia’s nonalignment would not have been possible without self-management and Yugoslavia's self-management would not have been possible without nonalignment. With Goran Musić, Ljubica Spaskovska, and Želimir Anić. Featuring music by Five Revolutions, Groupe Amnar awal Libya, and Kemal Monteno. Part 3 of 7. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended episode featuring 20+ min. of additional commentary, stories, analysis, archival footage, and music. Exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.
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| Nonaligned Movement: Liberation Movements | 03 mars 2025 | 00:51:06 | |
Decolonization was a goal of the Nonaligned Movement as a prerequisite for peaceful coexistence; the Movement supported liberation movements and organizations in Africa and Asia. Throughout its post-WWII existence, Yugoslavia provided all forms of aid and assistance to the "peoples who conduct just struggle for their national independence and liberation from imperialism, colonialism, and all other form of national oppression and submission." A look at Yugoslavia’s support for decolonization and liberation movements in the Global South, with a particular focus on Palestine. With Paul Stubbs and Žiga Smolič. Featuring music by Mandalay Sein Mottah, Nai Barghouti, Rachid & Fethi and, U Tin. Part 2 of 7. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended episode featuring additional commentary, stories, analysis, archival footage, and music. Exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.
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| Nonaligned Movement: Introduction | 10 févr. 2025 | 00:49:20 | |
An introduction to the Nonaligned Movement, its history, and its meaning for Yugoslavia, as well as reasons for a growing interest in it. With Paul Stubbs. Featuring music by Real Sounds of Africa. Part 1 of 7. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended episode featuring additional commentary, stories, analysis, archival footage, and music. Exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.
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| Who Is Walter? | 20 janv. 2025 | 00:12:15 | |
Stories of WWII resistance, inspired by a familiar hero.
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| Youth Work Actions | 06 janv. 2025 | 01:11:19 | |
A deep dig into volunteering in the former Yugoslavia, from youth work actions of yesteryear to volunteer camps of today. With Michael Alpert, Goran Gabrić, and Amra Kazić.
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| Ajvar Is Life | 09 déc. 2024 | 00:41:17 | |
The story of a humble and versatile Balkan dish.
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| [Fragment] Svakodnevnik: Unlived Memories of the Everyday | 25 nov. 2024 | 00:11:00 | |
What if New Belgrade had an ocean beach? An "Inspired by Yugoslavia" Fragment.
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| [Fragment] Yugo: The Non-Game | 18 nov. 2024 | 00:12:18 | |
A story of a video game that’s really not a game. An "Inspired by Yugoslavia" fragment.
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| 100 | 29 oct. 2024 | 01:07:58 | |
A look back, across 4+ years and 99 episodes, at the memory of a country that no longer exists.
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| [Fragment] Servers of Yugoslavia | 14 oct. 2024 | 00:10:27 | |
An illustrated story about a country that never existed. An "Inspired by Yugoslavia" Fragment.
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| [Fragment] This Was a Graffiti | 30 sept. 2024 | 00:12:45 | |
A story of a graffiti that may or may not have existed and of a very real documentary about it. An "Inspired by Yugoslavia" Fragment. With Valeriya Boyko.
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| Found in Translation, Too | 24 sept. 2024 | 00:44:06 | |
Literature is a crucial piece in the puzzle of Yugoslavia’s memory. Let’s give English translations a read again, through the eyes of translators. With Ellen Elias Bursać, Will Firth, Rawley Grau, Mirza Purić, Ena Selimović, and Jennifer Zoble.
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| Diaspora Voices 7: Generations | 09 sept. 2024 | 00:26:32 | |
Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad. This one started with an email.
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| Better Grave: Cemeteries in the Former Yugoslavia | 12 août 2024 | 00:39:39 | |
A visit to cemeteries in the former Yugoslavia. With Carol Lilly.
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| Yugophiles of All Lands | 23 juil. 2024 | 00:29:08 | |
All around the world, there are people with no familiar or formal links to Yugoslavia who carry the country in their hearts and souls with love. "Yugophiles of All Lands" is a new series on Remembering Yugoslavia featuring yugophiles. Today, we take a look at the place from the Netherlands by way of Ireland with Stephen Eustace and from Spain with Sebas Velasco.
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| Introducing Yugoblok | 08 juil. 2024 | 00:08:53 | |
Yugoblok is a global community for all who celebrate Yugoslavia’s legacy, cultivate its memory, and imagine its future possibilities. Yugoblok is a membership-based social network for yugophiles, post-Yugoslavs, and the yugo-curious all over the world. Yugoblok is a destination guide, event venue, and publishing platform. Yugoblok is a shop with original yugo-inspired designs. Yugoblok is you.
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| Brotherhood and Unity on the Court | 01 juil. 2024 | 00:41:21 | |
A look at Yugoslavia's most successful sport. Why do people remember Yugoslavia so fondly through basketball? Why was Yugoslavia so good at basketball? With Billie Addleman and Tilen Jamnik; Mitja Velikonja with an assist. | |||
| The Name of the Game: Yugoslav Football | 27 mai 2024 | 00:46:37 | |
The world’s most popular sport played a role in the creation of socialist Yugoslavia, in promoting the ideology of brotherhood and unity, and ultimately in the country’s violent dissolution. With Nadan Hadžić and Richard Mills.
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| Found in Translation | 13 mai 2024 | 00:32:53 | |
Literature is a crucial piece in the puzzle of Yugoslavia's memory. Let's give English translations a read. Part 2 of 2. With Vesna Marić (The President Shop), Eamon McGrath, and Buzz Poole (Sandorf Passage).
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| #exyulit | 22 avr. 2024 | 00:46:41 | |
Literature is a crucial piece in the puzzle of Yugoslavia's memory. Let's give it a read. Part 1 of 2. With Eamon McGrath @balkanbooks and Danja Bujas @danchireads.
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| (Post)Partisan Women | 01 avr. 2024 | 00:57:01 | |
One hundred thousand women fought in the Yugoslav Partisan forces and two million more provided support to the resistance (and revolution) in the rear. Today the generation of these women’s granddaughters carries on the legacy of their struggle. With Chiara Bonfiglioli, Ana Džokić, and Lura Limani. Featuring music by PMG Kolektiv and Sticky Keys.
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| Red Dubrovnik | 18 mars 2024 | 00:32:37 | |
A walk through Yugoslavia's legacy in Dubrovnik and a visit to the Red History Museum. With Krešimir Glavinić (Red History Museum). Featuring music by Sticky Keys.
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| Travel Quests | 04 mars 2024 | 00:29:50 | |
On the road in the former Yugoslavia with a couple of Americans: one recreating his trip from 1984, the other looking for cheese.
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| The Dissolution of Yugoslavia | 12 févr. 2024 | 00:39:58 | |
Why did Yugoslavia fall apart?
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| Sarajevo, USA | 22 janv. 2024 | 00:52:26 | |
One in three Bosnians live outside of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Most Bosnians outside their country, about 87 percent, are dispersed around Europe. Though only about 10 percent live in the United States, the country is home to the biggest Bosnian city abroad. With Akif Cogo, Patrick McCarthy, and Gino Srdjan Jevdjević. Featuring music by Kultur Shock.
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| Ask Me Anything | 01 janv. 2024 | 00:18:40 | |
In which I answer listener questions...about anything (but strictly Yugoslavia-related).
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| The Secret of Rakija | 19 déc. 2023 | 01:24:57 | |
Rakija is the distilled essence of the Balkan soul. More than a spirit, quintessential as it may be, rakija has a long history. Lately it has seen both threats to its survival and a resurgence. With Bill Gould (Faith No More / Yebiga Rakija), and Iskra Vukšić and Ekaterina Volkova (Javna Tajna). Featuring music by Dario, Dubioza Kolektiv, Luboyna, Magnifico, Pedja Vujić, and S.A.R.S.
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| K67: The King of Kiosks | 27 nov. 2023 | 01:06:03 | |
The K67 Kiosk is a symbol of Yugoslavia. Once ubiquitous in its thousands, only a few hundred units remain around the former country, many in various state of disrepair, and a handful of others around the world. But particularly over the past decade, the Kiosk has been experiencing a revival of sorts. It nowadays inspires educators, artists, designers, and others in their work. With Filip Filković and Dijana Handanović.
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| Collective Nostalgia | 13 nov. 2023 | 00:30:38 | |
Yugonostalgia as a collective emotion is a sentimental longing for a positively remembered past of the former country and life in it. Why and how does it arise? What are its positive and negative effects? And what are its implications?
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| Diaspora Voices 6: Music and Love | 10 oct. 2023 | 00:47:30 | |
Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad. In this installment, a Canadian and an Australian with Croatian Serb heritage share stories about longing and belonging. With Nina Platiša and Nik. Featuring music by Nina Platiša.
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| Inspired by Yugoslavia #4: Designers (Mostly) | 11 sept. 2023 | 00:31:52 | |
The country of Yugoslavia may no longer appear on any physical maps, but it remains on many people’s mental maps; though Yugoslavia may be dead forever as a political entity, it lives on as a cultural project.
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| Searching for Tito's Punks | 29 août 2023 | 00:48:38 | |
In 1981, an obscure English punk band recorded a song whose cover by an Istrian punk band became famous in the former Yugoslavia. It took three decades and serendipity for the dots to connect. With Barry Phillips (Demob) and Nenad Milić (Tito's Bojs). Featuring music by Agent Tajne Sile, Defiance, Hladno Pivo, JazzIstra Orchestra, and Tito's Bojs.
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| Celluloid Retro | 14 août 2023 | 01:23:03 | |
Films made after 1991 that are set in socialist Yugoslavia keep the former country present in popular culture. From Tito and Me (1991) to How I Learned to Fly (2022), from Slovenia to Serbia and beyond, from nostalgic tales to dark thrillers, the post-Yugoslav cinematography remembers Yugoslavia. Similarly, Czech directors have tackled the socialist period in their own ways. A comprehensive, comparative perspective.
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| On Trauma | 03 juil. 2023 | 00:46:51 | |
There’s an invisible way of remembering the former country and especially how it fell apart: in your body. This is doubly true for trauma. How do the people of the former Yugoslavia experience and deal with trauma of their country's dissolution? How does trauma get passed down over generations? And how can we dance our way out of it?
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| Vladimir Nazor: Dalmatian Poet, Croatian Politician, Yugoslav Partisan | 19 juin 2023 | 01:08:00 | |
Vladimir Nazor was a poet, Partisan, and politician. His greatness and popularity endured through five regimes/countries. Who was Croatia's greatest children's writer and first president? How did the author of so many Croatian national classics turn into Tito’s adulator ? How come he remains a popular figure in today’s anti-communist Croatia?
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| One Day in Kumrovec | 29 mai 2023 | 01:04:46 | |
The Day of Youth was a major Yugoslav holiday. It continues to be annually commemorated to this day in Tito's birthplace. What was the holiday and how was it celebrated in Kurmovec? How is the defunct Yugoslav holiday commemorated today? Plus a field report from the 2022 edition of the event.* With Nevena Škrbić Alempijević and Jovan Vejnović (plus Hrvoje Klasić and Larisa Kurtović).
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| An Incomplete Guide to (Post)Yugoslav Cinema | 15 mai 2023 | 01:05:23 | |
Let's go to the movies! Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav film is a port window projecting the region’s cultures and history. From Gibanica to Kraut Westerns, from Black Wave to Prague School, and from films of remembrance to war movies, this is seventy years of cinematic history in a single arc. With Dijana Jelača and Sanjin Pejković.
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| The Future of Yugonostalgia | 24 avr. 2023 | 00:52:35 | |
Yugonostalgia is like a vessel that everyone fills with their own ideas and meanings. What is it and why does it exist? How does it manifest and how do different people experience it? And where is it headed? A deep dive in the yugonostalgia plus a comparison with nostalgia in the former Czechoslovakia.
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| The Jews of Sarajevo | 10 avr. 2023 | 01:02:13 | |
Jews have been part of Sarajevo's human tapestry since the 16th century, only to be "discovered' by the rest of the world during the Bosnian War. This is their story. With Jakob Finci* and Francine Friedman. Featuring music by Shira Utfila and Flory Jagoda.
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