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s a book reviewer, I'm always
drawn to the story behind
the book, beyond the cov-
ers. Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Geraldine Brooks has crafted a novel
that inventively traces the story behind
one very significant book, the Sarajevo
Haggadah.
People of the Book (Viking $25.95) is
a compelling tale stretching over sev-
eral centuries as the hand-illuminated
manuscript passes through many
hands. If a book could be witness, this
one has beheld families pulled apart,
hatred, exile, genocide and war, and it
has also glimpsed humanity at its best.
After more than 500 years, its parch-
ment is fragile, but the color illustra-
tions are still unusually vivid.
The Sarajevo Haggadah is thought
to have been made in Spain as early as
the 14th century and carried to Italy

at the time of the Inquisition. In 1894,
it was brought to the attention of the
Sarajevo Jewish community, when a
poor family sought to sell it. In the
novel, Brooks imagines the details.
In a recent article in the New Yorker,
Brooks told the true story behind the
book's recent history. During World
War II, and again during the Bosnian
War, the Haggadah was rescued and
hidden by Muslims, risking their lives
in the process.
In 1942, Dervis Korkut, the chief
librarian of the Bosnian National
Museum, which was under the watch
of the Nazis, slipped the book out of
the museum and brought it to a farm-
house outside of the city for safekeep-
ing; that same year, he also helped a
young Jewish girl escape. Years later,
the girl made her way to Israel and had
Dervis Korkut and his wife recognized
as "Righteous Among the Nations" by
Yad Vashem. That recognition — a
surprise to his widow — ultimately