Exhibition by Eli Tauber, “Old Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo”, was opened last night in the Gallery “Novi Hram” in Sarajevo.
The author presented a series of miniature tombstones made of stone and the photos of the Old Jewish Cemetery.
Tauber said that foreigners are very interested in this Jewish cemetery and that the exhibition represents a way to present it to the world, and therefore, it was prepared in English.
He said that all good things come by chance, and only after that, person does something. In the same way, he says, 10 years ago he discovered a monument unique in the world, and it is a tombstone of Zeki-efendija, i.e. Mosa Atijas, who was a member of the city administration of Sarajevo.
Tauber explained that the text at Atijas’s tombstone was written in three languages, local, Hebrew and Turkish – in Arabic script, and that makes it so characteristic.
The text about Zeki-efendija itself, he added, says that he was a good and honest person.
The idea of the exhibition, Tauber says, came much later, when he decided to further investigate the story a few years ago.
“There was a lot of stumbling until I came to certain data, which revealed when and how things were built, who built what and what caused the creation of the cemetery fence,” he said.
The mosaic, he says, was gradually completing, and after the last year’s research, when he found genizah or grave where Jews are burring their holy books, the story was rounded up and the search was over.
(Source: klix.ba)
