ba-006040-o bp 168
type: RecordSet
archivist note: The description was made by Adnan Tinjic.
biographical history: Laura Papo Bohoreta was born in Sarajevo on 15 March 1891, into the poor Jewish family of Juda and Esther Levi, the first of their seven children. Juda Levi was a trader, but as he did not have success in Sarajevo, he relocated to Istanbul in 1900 with his family. In Turkey, they changed the name of Luna into a more modern and international one - Laura. For eight years in Istanbul, Laura attended the International French School for Jews"Alliance Israélite Français". After eight years, Levi's family returned to Sarajevo, just as poor as before, only with more children. In order to help her family, Laura gave lessons in French, Latin, German and piano. With Laura's help, her sisters Nina, Klara and Blanka (the mother of the famous writer Gordana Kuić) opened a salon"Chapeau Chic Parisie" in Sarajevo. Immediately upon returning to Sarajevo, at the age of 17, Laura realized that the fire of the Sephardi tradition and folklore had begin to extinguish, and she began to collect romances, poems, stories and Sephardic proverbs. In addition, she translated and adapted the works of French authors: Jules Verne"Captain Grant's Childre" and Emile de Girardin's"Joy of Fear" "La joie fait peur – Alegria espant"). A milestone in her social engagement was the article"South Slav women in politic" "Die Südslawische Frau in der Politi"), published in 1916 in the"Bosnische Pos", a Bosnian-Herzegovinian newspapers printed in German language , where Jelica Belović-Bernadzikowska dedicated a chapter to Sephardic women in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this article, the Sephardic woman was described as a nun, a tradition of a loyal woman who faithfully preserves patriarchal values. This angered Laura, and she published the answer"Die Spanolisch" the same day a week later in the same newspaper, with the intention of a more realistic presentation of the Sephardic woman, her role in the family, her virtues and defects. During the 1930s, Laura wrote seven drama: the single-act"Sometime" (Avia de ser…
has or had script: Latn
other finding aids: Detailed inventory available.
conditions of access: Records are available. Digital copies (scans) of high quality also available.
has beginning date: 1927
has creator: 006725
has end date: 1942
has or had holder: ba-006040
has or had some members with language: lad
has or had some members with language: sh
has or had subject: 006725
has record set type: Fonds
identifier: O-BP-168
record resource extent: 1 box
record resource source of information: Biography source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Papo_Bohoreta
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: The fond contains original manuscripts and related documents of Laura Papo - Bohoreta. The Archive of Sarajevo considers this fond one of its most important and relevant collections among those of families/public figures, since Laura Papo was one of key figures in Sephardic community of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She died in 1942, and lost members of her family due to Holocaust.
title: Papo Laura - Bohoreta