Judeo-Spanish and the making of a community / edited by Bryan Kirschen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirschen, Bryan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ladino language--History.

Ladino language.

Ladino language--Social aspects--History.

Sephardim--History.

Sephardim.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

Judeo-Spanish and the Making of a Community brings together scholars and activists from around the world, all of whom have participated in and presented original research at the annual ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Symposia. This collection addresses a number of linguistic, historical, and cultural matters pertinent to the Sephardim in different lands from the fifteenth century to the present day. Essays in this volume reveal how Sephardim from various parts of the world - Turkey, the Balkans, Morocco, and the United States - culturally and linguistically position themselves among each other, among o

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part One: Linguistics and Language

Judeo-Spanish as a Jewish Language

Dialect Concentration and Dissipation

Language Shift and Speakers' Attitudes in Seattle Ladino

The Ladino Database Project Results as Insight into the CurrentSituation of Judeo-Spanish in Turkey

ণaketía

Part Two: History

Coping with Nineteenth-Century Transformation

French vs. Judeo-Spanish

A Pilgrimage to a Personality

Part Three: Culture

The Power in Transmission

Attitudes toward Sephardic Language Change and MultilingualismExpressed in La Amerika in Early Twentieth-Century New York

'Los sefardíes' and 'Oriental Jews'

Sones sefaradíes.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4438-8158-9

OCLC:

921217056