Author : Samuel G. Armistead
Release : 2016-11-11
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 201/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Bosnia by : Samuel G. Armistead

Download or read book Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Bosnia written by Samuel G. Armistead. This book was released on 2016-11-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.