Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Bosnia Reprint 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Armistead, Samuel G. (Editor), Silverman, Joseph H. (Editor), Sljivic-Simsic, Biljana (Other) |
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ISBN: 1512800198 ISBN-13: 9781512800197 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary OUR PRICE: $75.95 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2016 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - Eastern (see Also Russian & Former Soviet Union) - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
Series: Haney Foundation |
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.83 lbs) 140 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Judeo-Spanish folk literature of the Sephardic Jews of Bosnia, and with it their uncommonly rich balladry, has remained largely unknown to Western scholars. Since their move to Sarajevo in the sixteenth century, Serob-Croatian has displaced their original Spanish, and the entire culture is rapidly approaching extinction. This book preserved for posterity three fundamentally important groups of these rare ballads: Kalmi Baruch's Spanski romanse; ballads collected from the readers of the Sarajevo newspaper Jevrejski Glas; and five previously unedited eighteenth-century Bosnian ballads from a manuscript in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem. Notes, abstracts in English, reproductions of the music itself, and other scholarly aids serve to make this colorful and strangely modern literature fully accessible to Hispanists, folklorists, and all students of comparative literature and Judaic culture. |