An Ode to Salonika: The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty Contributor(s): Melammed, Renée Levine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253006813 ISBN-13: 9780253006813 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Jewish - Poetry | Middle Eastern - History | Jewish - General |
Dewey: 861.62 |
LCCN: 2012032101 |
Series: Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.30 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Cultural Region - Middle East |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 Ren e Levine Melammed's English translation are framed by chapters that trace the history of the Sephardi community in Salonika and provide context for the poems. This unique and moving source provides a rare entr e into a once vibrant world now lost. |