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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452364603321

Autore

Melammed Renee Levine

Titolo

An ode to Salonika [[electronic resource] ] : the Ladino verses of Bouena Sarfatty / / Renee Levine Melammed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2013

ISBN

1-299-40582-7

0-253-00709-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (671 p.)

Collana

Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies

Disciplina

861/.62

Soggetti

Coplas - Greece - Thessalonike

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Greece - Thessalonike

Jewish women - Greece - Thessalonike - Intellectual life - 20th century

Jews - Greece - Thessalonike - Intellectual life - 20th century

Jews - Greece - Thessalonike - Social life and customs - 20th century

Ladino poetry - 20th century

Electronic books.

Greece History Occupation, 1941-1944

Thessalonike (Greece) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Renée Levine