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==Biography==
==Biography==
Samokovlija was born into a [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardi Jewish]] family in [[Goražde]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] at the time of the [[Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina|Austro-Hungarian occupation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slobodna-bosna.ba/vijest/12305/isak_samokovlija_ne_prochitani_velikan_nase_knjizevnosti.html|title=(Ne)pročitani velikan naše književnosti|publisher=Slobodna Bosna|date=24 January 2014|accessdate=8 January 2015}}</ref> While one side of his family came from Spain after the [[Expulsion of Jews from Spain]], "his great-grandfather moved to Bosnia from the town of [[Samokov]] in [[Bulgaria]]", which led to "the surname Los Samokovlis in [[Judaeo-Spanish|Ladino]] or Samokovlija in [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]].<ref name="Book">{{cite book |last1=Samokovlija |first1=Isak |last2=Lešić |first2=Zdenko |last3=Hawkesworth |first3=Celia |last4=Pribićević-Zorić |first4=Christina |authorlink4=Christina Pribićević-Zorić|title=Tales of old Sarajevo |date=1997 |publisher=Vallentine Mitchell |isbn=085303331-5 |pages=169-178}}</ref>
Samokovlija was born into a [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardi Jewish]] family in [[Goražde]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] at the time of the [[Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina|Austro-Hungarian occupation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slobodna-bosna.ba/vijest/12305/isak_samokovlija_ne_prochitani_velikan_nase_knjizevnosti.html|title=(Ne)pročitani velikan naše književnosti|publisher=Slobodna Bosna|date=24 January 2014|accessdate=8 January 2015}}</ref> While one side of his family came from Spain after the [[Expulsion of Jews from Spain]], "his great-grandfather moved to Bosnia from the town of [[Samokov]] in [[Bulgaria]]", which led to "the surname Los Samokovlis in [[Judaeo-Spanish|Ladino]] or Samokovlija in [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]].<ref name="Book">{{cite book |last1=Samokovlija |first1=Isak |last2=Lešić |first2=Zdenko |last3=Hawkesworth |first3=Celia |last4=Pribićević-Zorić |first4=Christina |authorlink4=Christina Pribićević-Zorić|title=Tales of old Sarajevo |date=1997 |publisher=Vallentine Mitchell |isbn=085303331-5 |pages=169–178}}</ref>


After completing primary school Samokovlija went to Sarajevo. He attended high school with [[Ivo Andrić]], the first Yugoslav to win the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]].<ref name="Book"/> After graduating high school in 1910, he received a scholarship from local Jewish charity [[La Benevolencija]] to study medicine in Vienna.<ref name="Book"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiosarajevo.ba/novost/124087/isak-samokovlija-veliki-bh-knjizevnik-i-doktor|title=Isak Samokovlija - veliki bh. književnik i doktor|publisher=[[Radio Sarajevo]]|date=3 September 2013|accessdate=8 January 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108112527/http://www.radiosarajevo.ba/novost/124087/isak-samokovlija-veliki-bh-knjizevnik-i-doktor|archivedate=8 January 2015}}</ref> Later he worked as a doctor in the towns Goražde and [[Fojnica]] (1921–25)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiosarajevo.ba/novost/137977/manifestacija-dani-isaka-samokovlije-sunce-nad-drinom|title=Manifestacija 'Dani Isaka Samokovlije - Sunce nad Drinom'|publisher=Radio Sarajevo|date=14 January 2014|accessdate=8 January 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108112447/http://www.radiosarajevo.ba/novost/137977/manifestacija-dani-isaka-samokovlije-sunce-nad-drinom|archivedate=8 January 2015}}</ref> before beginning a regular job at Sarajevo's Koševo hospital in 1925.
After completing primary school Samokovlija went to Sarajevo. He attended high school with [[Ivo Andrić]], the first Yugoslav to win the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]].<ref name="Book"/> After graduating high school in 1910, he received a scholarship from local Jewish charity [[La Benevolencija]] to study medicine in Vienna.<ref name="Book"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiosarajevo.ba/novost/124087/isak-samokovlija-veliki-bh-knjizevnik-i-doktor|title=Isak Samokovlija - veliki bh. književnik i doktor|publisher=[[Radio Sarajevo]]|date=3 September 2013|accessdate=8 January 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108112527/http://www.radiosarajevo.ba/novost/124087/isak-samokovlija-veliki-bh-knjizevnik-i-doktor|archivedate=8 January 2015}}</ref> Later he worked as a doctor in the towns Goražde and [[Fojnica]] (1921–25)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiosarajevo.ba/novost/137977/manifestacija-dani-isaka-samokovlije-sunce-nad-drinom|title=Manifestacija 'Dani Isaka Samokovlije - Sunce nad Drinom'|publisher=Radio Sarajevo|date=14 January 2014|accessdate=8 January 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108112447/http://www.radiosarajevo.ba/novost/137977/manifestacija-dani-isaka-samokovlije-sunce-nad-drinom|archivedate=8 January 2015}}</ref> before beginning a regular job at Sarajevo's Koševo hospital in 1925.

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Isak Samokovlija
Isak Samokovlija, circa 1942
Isak Samokovlija, circa 1942
Born(1889-09-03)3 September 1889
Goražde, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died15 January 1955(1955-01-15) (aged 65)
Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
OccupationWriter, academic
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
SubjectJewish life in Bosnia and Herzegovina
SpouseHedda Samokovlija (née Brunner)

Isak Samokovlija (3 September 1889 – 15 January 1955) was a prominent Bosnian Jewish writer. By profession he was a physician. His stories describe the life of the Bosnian Sephardic Jews.

Biography

Samokovlija was born into a Sephardi Jewish family in Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time of the Austro-Hungarian occupation.[1] While one side of his family came from Spain after the Expulsion of Jews from Spain, "his great-grandfather moved to Bosnia from the town of Samokov in Bulgaria", which led to "the surname Los Samokovlis in Ladino or Samokovlija in Bosnian.[2]

After completing primary school Samokovlija went to Sarajevo. He attended high school with Ivo Andrić, the first Yugoslav to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.[2] After graduating high school in 1910, he received a scholarship from local Jewish charity La Benevolencija to study medicine in Vienna.[2][3] Later he worked as a doctor in the towns Goražde and Fojnica (1921–25)[4] before beginning a regular job at Sarajevo's Koševo hospital in 1925.

At the beginning of the Second World War, he was a department head at the Koševo hospital. In April 1941 he was discharged from service as well as other Jews, but soon he was mobilized as a medical doctor fights against a typhus epidemic. It was not until 1945, he managed to escape Yugoslavia and hide until the country was liberated. After the end of World War II, he held various positions in the Bosnian and Yugoslav literary circles. From 1948-51 he edited the magazine Brazda, and then, until his death he was an editor at the publishing company Svjetlost.[citation needed]

His first short story Rafina avlija was published in 1927 and two years later his first collection of stories, Od proljeća do proljeća, came out. Several of his stories were made into television films and his book Hanka was made into a film of the same name directed by Slavko Vorkapić in 1955. He did not live to see the film, dying at age 65 in January 1955. He was buried in the old Jewish cemetery on the slopes of Trebević mountain, near Sarajevo.[5]

Bibliography

  • Rafina avlija (1927, Rafo's Yard)
  • Od proljeća do proljeća (1929, From Spring to Spring)
  • Nosač Samuel, (1946, Samuel the Porter)
  • Solomunovo slovo, (1949, Solomun's Letter)
  • Hanka (Hanka)
  • Plava Jevrejka (The Blond Jewess)
  • On je lud (He is Crazy)
  • Fuzija (Fusion)
  • Tragom života (Following Life)
  • Đerdan (The Necklace)
  • Priča o radostima (A Story of Joy)

Further reading

Palavestra, Predrag (2000). "Jewish Writers in Serbian Literature: Isak Samokovlija" (PDF). Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies. 14 (1). Translated by E.D. Goy; Jasna Levinger-Goy. Bloomington, IN, USA: Slavica Publishers: 65–68. ISSN 0742-3330. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 30 May 2015.

References

  1. ^ "(Ne)pročitani velikan naše književnosti". Slobodna Bosna. 24 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  2. ^ a b c Samokovlija, Isak; Lešić, Zdenko; Hawkesworth, Celia; Pribićević-Zorić, Christina (1997). Tales of old Sarajevo. Vallentine Mitchell. pp. 169–178. ISBN 085303331-5.
  3. ^ "Isak Samokovlija - veliki bh. književnik i doktor". Radio Sarajevo. 3 September 2013. Archived from the original on 8 January 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  4. ^ "Manifestacija 'Dani Isaka Samokovlije - Sunce nad Drinom'". Radio Sarajevo. 14 January 2014. Archived from the original on 8 January 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  5. ^ "Sjećanje na Isaka Samokovliju, književnika i oca Nosača Samuela". Radio Sarajevo. 15 January 2014. Archived from the original on 8 January 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
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