Brooks,
Geraldine. People of the Book (New York: Viking, c2008) 372 p.
Doctor
Ozren Karaman is "chief librarian of the National Museum and
professor of librarianship at the National University of Bosnia"
(p. 16). He saves a beautiful illuminated haggadah from the library
as it is being bombed during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992. He is a
thin young man in faded blue jeans with green eyes and unruly curls.
He is sad about all the books he could not save which were destroyed.
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