Isak Samokovlija

Isak Samokovlija was born in 1889 in Goražde, on the Drina, into a Sephardic Jewish family one of whose ancestors had come from Samokov, in Bulgaria, hence his name. A scholarship from the Jewish society La Benevolencija enabled him to study medicine in Vienna; he practised in Goražde, in Fojnica, then at the Koševo hospital in Sarajevo. Dismissed in 1941 and imprisoned by the Ustaše, he escaped them in the spring of 1945 and hid until the liberation. He then edited a literary journal and later worked as a publisher in Sarajevo, where he died on 15 January 1955.

In the catalogue 1

• Short storiesOd proljeća do proljećaIsak Samokovlija · 1929not translated into EnglishLiterature