Intergenerational Memory and Language of the Sarajevo Sephardim

Intergenerational Memory and Language of the Sarajevo Sephardim
Author: Jonna Rock
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2019-04-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3030140466

This book analyses issues of language and Jewish identity among the Sephardim in Sarajevo. The author examines how Sephardim belonging to three different generations in Sarajevo deal with the challenge of cultivating hybrid and hyphenated identities under destabilizing conditions, exploring how a group of interviewees define and describe the language they speak since Yugoslavia’s collapse. Their self-identification through language is then placed within the context of other cases of linguistic and ethnic identity formation in European minority groups. This book will be of interest to students and scholars working in several related fields and disciplines, including Slavic studies, Historical Anthropology, Jewish History and Holocaust studies, Sociolinguistics, and Memory studies.

Tales of Old Sarajevo

Tales of Old Sarajevo
Author: Isak Samokovlija
Publisher: Mitchell Vallentine
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1997
Genre: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN:

This collection of short stories from Isak Samokovlija, the Sholom Aleichem of Sephardi Jewry, depicts the life and mentality of Bosnian Sephardic Jews.

Educability and Group Differences

Educability and Group Differences
Author: Arthur Robert Jensen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415678560

Jensen is a controversial figure, largely for his conclusions based on his and other research regarding the causes of race based differences in intelligence and in this book he develops more fully the argument he formulated in his controversial Harvard Education Review article 'How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?'. In a wide-ranging survey of the evidence he argues that measured IQ reveals a strong hereditary component and he argues that the system of education which assumes an almost wholly environmentalist view of the causes of group differences capitalizes on a relatively narrow category of human abilities. Since its original publication the controversy surrounding Jensen's ideas has continued as successive generations of psychologists, scientists and policy-makers have grappled with the same issues.

Remembering for the Future

Remembering for the Future
Author: J. Roth
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 2898
Release: 2017-02-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1349660191

Focused on 'The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide', Remembering for the Future brings together the work of nearly 200 scholars from more than 30 countries and features cutting-edge scholarship across a range of disciplines, amounting to the most extensive and powerful reassessment of the Holocaust ever undertaken. In addition to its international scope, the project emphasizes that varied disciplinary perspectives are needed to analyze and to check the genocidal forces that have made the Twentieth century so deadly. Historians and ethicists, psychologists and literary scholars, political scientists and theologians, sociologists and philosophers - all of these, and more, bring their expertise to bear on the Holocaust and genocide. Their contributions show the new discoveries that are being made and the distinctive approaches that are being developed in the study of genocide, focusing both on archival and oral evidence, and on the religious and cultural representation of the Holocaust.

Judeo-Spanish and the Making of a Community

Judeo-Spanish and the Making of a Community
Author: Bryan Kirschen
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2015-09-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1443881589

Judeo-Spanish and the Making of a Community brings together scholars and activists from around the world, all of whom have participated in and presented original research at the annual ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Symposia. This collection addresses a number of linguistic, historical, and cultural matters pertinent to the Sephardim in different lands from the fifteenth century to the present day. Essays in this volume reveal how Sephardim from various parts of the world – Turkey, the Balkans, Morocco, and the United States – culturally and linguistically position themselves among each other, among other Jews, and among their non-Jewish co-regionalists. Contributors explore how the rich history of the Sephardim has allowed for the development, maintenance, endangerment, and even revitalization of the Judeo-Spanish language(s).

Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present

Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present
Author: Benjamin Hary
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2018-11-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 150150455X

This book offers sociological and structural descriptions of language varieties used in over 2 dozen Jewish communities around the world, along with synthesizing and theoretical chapters. Language descriptions focus on historical development, contemporary use, regional and social variation, structural features, and Hebrew/Aramaic loanwords. The book covers commonly researched language varieties, like Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, and Judeo-Arabic, as well as less commonly researched ones, like Judeo-Tat, Jewish Swedish, and Hebraized Amharic in Israel today.

The Book of Klezmer

The Book of Klezmer
Author: Yale Strom
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 1613740638

Originally published in hardcover in 2002.