Twentieth-Century Sephardic Authors from the Former Yugoslavia

Twentieth-Century Sephardic Authors from the Former Yugoslavia
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Publisher : Legenda
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 1781888515
ISBN-13 : 9781781888513
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Download or read book Twentieth-Century Sephardic Authors from the Former Yugoslavia written by ZELJKO. JOVANOVIC and published by Legenda. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).


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