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An Ode to Salonika : The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty /

Through the poetry of Bouena Sarfatty (1916-1997), this book 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 tradition...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Melammed, Renee Levine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.