Description
In the twentieth century, various Sephardic authors from the former Yugoslavia took upon themselves the task of revitalising different forms of Judeo-Spanish oral tradition such as narrative, songs or ballads. These forms were fostered in the language of the Sepharadim, Ladino or Judeo-Spanish, since the expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492. In their diaspora the Sepharadim mainly settled in the Ottoman Empire whose collapse began at the end of the nineteenth century. This disintegration followed later on by the Holocaust resulted in a rapid decline of the Sephardic language and tradition, causing UNESCO in 2002 to declare Ladino a seriously endangered language. In this interdisciplinary cultural study, Zeljko Jovanovic examines the efforts of the Yugoslav Sephardic authors to preserve the memory of a culture and a language in decline as their way of constructing their own personal and collective narrative and identity.
Zeljko Jovanovic is a researcher in Sephardic studies at the Institute of Language, Literature and Anthropology (ILLA) of the CSIC (Madrid, Spain).
Author: Zeljko Jovanovic
Publisher: Legenda
Published: 01/09/2023
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9781781888520
ISBN10: 1781888523
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European | Spanish & Portuguese
- Literary Criticism | Russian & Soviet
- Literary Criticism | Jewish
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