Our Collections
The Center for Bosnian Studies at Saint Louis University is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to materials that document the history and culture of Bosnia-Herzegovina and its diaspora. These materials reflect the experiences of Bosnians, peacekeepers and other supporters during and after the war of 1992-1995 and document the history of the vibrant Bosnian community that has grown in St. Louis in the decades since.
Digital Collections
As part of its ongoing work, the Center for Bosnian Studies is committed to digitizing additional materials from the diaspora community in St. Louis and the United States more broadly.
If you have items you would like to contribute, please contact us at centerforbosnianstudies@slu.edu. If you are unsure whether the Center would be interested in items you have, please reach out and we can discuss it.
Image Gallery
This collection reflects the experiences of Bosnians, peacekeepers, reporters and other supporters during and after the war and documents the history of the vibrant Bosnian community that has grown in St. Louis in the decades since.
Sub-collections include images from the Elsie Roth Collection, the DiPasquale Papers and photographs donated by members of the St. Louis community. The original versions of many of these items are available for viewing at the Center for Bosnian Studies.
Publications
This collection of digitized and born-digital materials documents the war and its aftermath, both in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in the United States. Titles include diaspora publications like SabaH (1997-2014), Dijaspora bošnjačka (2004-2009) and Plima Magazin (1997-2000), and two volumes of Knjiga Fotografija from the Podrinje Identifikacijski Projekat.
Physical Collections
The Center preserves rare books, manuscripts, letters, artifacts, and ephemera that are at risk of being lost or whose contexts and significance are at risk of being forgotten.
Some items that typify the scope and purpose of the collection include:
- Knjiga Fotografija [Book of Photographs], the two-volume Book of Belongings depicts personal items found in mass graves;
- Letters written in concentration camps;
- Programs and flyers from political and cultural events in St. Louis;
- Scholarly, journalistic and popular publications about Bosnia that are difficult to find in the U.S.
- The Center’s archival collection also includes complete or nearly complete runs of Dijaspora Bošnjačka (2004-2009), Plima Magazin (1997-2000), and SabaH (1997-2014).
In addition to a large circulating collection of secondary sources, highlights include:
- The Sarajevo Haggadah, facsimile ms in Hebrew with piyutim and prayers
- Nevenka Mitra Collection, scrapbooks and recordings
- Sarajevo Survival Guide, how to survive in an urban environment under impossible conditions
- Ni Krivi Ni Dužni: Knjiga Nestalih Općine Prijedor, Book of the Missing
- Bosnian Propaganda Collection, flyers and leaflets distributed in Bosnia during (and after) the war
- 100 Godina Bošnjaka u Americi, a centennial of Bosniaks in America
- Collection of Currency Notes from Yugoslavia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, dinara dated between 1978 and 1994
- Missing Persons on the Territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, names of the missing published by the International Committee of the Red Cross
- Postcard Collection, images from Trio Sarajevo
- Bosnia Country Handbook, a collaborative effort from organizations within the U.S. Department of Defense
- Superman Deadly Legacy, Roman and Cyrillic versions of DC's Serbo-Croatian comic book