Ode to Salonika The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty

Name: Ode to Salonika The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty
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ISBN: 9780253006813

ISBN-10: 0253006813

ISBN-13: 9780253006813

Edition: 2013

Authors: Renï¿½e Levine Melammed, Renï¿½e Levine Melammed

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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. In some 500 Ladino poems known as coplas, Sarfatty, a resident of Salonika who survived the Holocaust as a partisan and later settled in Canada, preserves the traditions and memories of a diverse and thriving Sephardi community in the first half of the 20th century and describes the traumas this community faced under German occupation before the Nazis deported its Jewish residents to Auschwitz. The coplas in Ladino and in Renée Levine Melammed's English translation are framed by chapters tracing the history of…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.342



Preface


Introduction: Twentieth-Century Salonika and Bouena's Ladino Coplas



Bouena's Ode to Salonika



Tradition versus Modernity and Historical Developments



Coplas Written by Bouena Sarfatty Garfinkle about Life in Salonika



"The Miseries That the Germans Inflicted on Salonika"



Coplas about the Miseries That the Germans Inflicted on Salonika, 1941-1943


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index of Community Members' Names That Appear in the Coplas


Index