Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Bosnia

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1971

Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Bosnia

Edited by: Samuel G. Armistead and Joseph H. Silverman
With contributions by: Biljana Sljivic-Simsic
In collaboration with: Biljana Sljivic-Simsic

In the series Anniversary Collection

In the series Haney Foundation Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512800203

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About this book

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.

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"Professor Armistead and his associates, with meticulous scholarship and con amore, have saved a unique and priceless segment of Jewish folk tradition from extinction. A precious record. "--Theodore Gaster

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
A. Five Eighteenth-Century Bosnian Ballads Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
B. Kalmi Baruch's "Spanish Ballads Of The Bosnian Jews" (1933) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
C. Ballads of the Bosnian Sephardim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
English Abstracts and Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Ballads from Bosnia in the Present Collection and in other Published Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Indices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Copyright year: 1971
Edition: Reprint 2016
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 140
Keywords: Anthropology; Music; Religion; Folklore; Linguistics; Jewish Studies

eBook

Published: November 11, 2016
ISBN: 9781512800203