Proceedings of the Twelfth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies, 24-26 June, 2001 : Sephardic language, literature and history / edited by Hilary Pomeroy and Michael Alpert.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Pomeroy, Hilary.

Alpert, Michael, 1936-

Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

Conference Name:

British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies (12th : 2001 : London, England)

Series:

IJS studies in Judaica 1570-1581 ; v. 3.

IJS studies in Judaica, 1570-1581 ; v. 3

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Ladino philology--Congresses.

Ladino philology.

Sephardim--Congresses.

Sephardim.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 195 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Language Note:

English and Spanish.

Summary:

This collection of eighteen papers delivered at the twelfth biennial British Judeo-Spanish Studies conference, held in London in 2001, offers a wide selection of world-wide current research into the language, literature, and history of the Sephardi Jews. With contributions by Rachel Amado Bortnick, Tracy K. Harris, Jill Kushner Bishop, Judith R.

Contents:

Part I Language

Chapter 1 The Internet and Judeo-Spanish: Impact and Implications of a Virtual Community / Rachel Amado Bortnick 3

Chapter 2 The Incorporation of Non-Spanish Elements into Judeo-Spanish / Tracy K. Harris 13

Chapter 3 From Shame to Nostalgia: Shifting Language Ideologies in the Judeo-Spanish Maintenance Movement / Jill Kushner Bishop 23

Chapter 4 A Reanalysis Process in Judeo-Spanish / Alexia Duchowny 33

Chapter 5 De rebus naturae: la flora y la fauna en dos diccionarios sefardies de Bulgaria / Dora Mancheva 39

Chapter 6 Disputa teologica y disputa filologica en el Coloquio entre un cristiano y un judio (1370) / Aitor Garcia Moreno 49

Chapter 7 Hebrew Verb Forms in the Valladolid Taqqanot of 1432 / Elaine R. Miller 57

Chapter 8 Sobre la transmision y el formulismo en el Me'am Lo'ez de Yacob Juli / Aldina Quintana 69

Part II Literature

Chapter 9 Contamination and Reconstruction in the Judeo-Spanish Romancero / Samuel G. Armistead 83

Chapter 10 Reconstructing the Past: How the Portuguese Jews Read Biblical Narratives / Julia R. Lieberman 101

Chapter 11 Marranism, Masking and the Traffic in Enlightenment Thought: A Historical Contextualization and Analysis of Dr. Jacob de Castro Sarmento's Exemplar de Penitencia / Ronnie Perelis 109

Chapter 12 Una obra singular de la literatura sefardi del siglo XVIII: La guerta de oro de D. Atias / Angel Berenguer Amador 119

Chapter 13 'Yo, senor, he nacido hebrea / y hebrea tendre que morir': Forced Conversion, Religious Conflict, and Female Martyrdom in the Judeo-Spanish Ballad Sol la Saddika / Messod Salama 129

Chapter 14 Judeo-Spanish Plays on the Themes of Tradition and Change in the Early Twentieth Century / Rena Molho 141

Chapter 15 New Texts to Popular Tunes: Sung-Poems in Judeo-Spanish by Sadik Gershon and Moshe Cazes (Sadik y Gazoz) / Rivka Havassy 149

Chapter 16 'E com razoes de ladino': Judeo-Spanish Song as Identity Marker, from Iberian Neo-Sephardic Activities to the Internet / Judith R. Cohen 159

Chapter 17 Three Contemporary Judeo-Spanish Poets / Maria Esformes 169

Part III History

Chapter 18 Gestion de los diplomaticos espanoles en favor de la comunidad sefardita de Grecia durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Papel desempenado por el encargado de negocios, Pedro de Prat / Matilde Morcillo Rosillo 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

ISBN:

9004139567

OCLC:

54803689