ISBN:
9780253006813
,
9780253007094 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
671 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780253007094
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
DDC:
305.89240495
Keywords:
Judenspanisch
;
Englisch
;
Juden
;
Thessaloniki
;
Quelle
Abstract:
Through the poetry of Bouena Sarfatty (1916-1997), An Ode to Salonika sketches the life and demise of the Sephardi Jewish community that once flourished in this Greek crossroads city. A resident of Salonika who survived the Holocaust as a partisan and later settled in Canada, Sarfatty preserved the traditions and memories of this diverse and thriving Sephardi community in some 500 Ladino poems known as coplas. The coplas also describe the traumas the community faced under German occupation before the Nazis deported its Jewish residents to Auschwitz. The coplas in Ladino and in Renée Levine ...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Online-Ausg.:
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