Judeo-Spanish and the making of a community
By: edited by Bryan Kirschen
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng; lad
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781443878050
Subjects: Ladino language; History; Sephardim; Social life and customs; Social aspects
Description: "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)"--
Notes: Articles resulting from three years of an annual symposium held at the University of California, Los Angeles, 2012-2014.

Includes bibliographical references.

11 contributions in English; 1 in Ladino.
Table of contents: title: Judeo-Spanish as a Jewish language :; title: linguistic realities and ideologies  -- Bryan Kirschen; title: Dialect concentration and dissipation :; title: challenges to Judeo-Spanish revitalization efforts  -- Rey Romero; title: Downtown language shift and speakers' attitudes in Seattle Ladino  -- Molly FitzMorris; title: The Ladino Database Project results as insight into the current situation of Judeo-Spanish in Turkey  -- Karen Gerson Şarhon; title: Ḥaketía :; title: discovering the other Judeo-Spanish vernacular  -- Alicia Sisso Raz; title: Coping with nineteenth-century transformation :; title: Ladino in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish republic  -- Ceren Abi; title: French vs. Judeo-Spanish :; title: an overview of the Alliance Israélite Universelle's language policy in the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the twentieth century  -- Ana Ćirić Pavlović; title: A pilgrimage to a personality :; title: Doña Gracia Mendes  -- Rifka Cook; title: The power in transmission :; title: Haketía as a vector for women's communal power  -- Vanessa Paloma Elbaz; title: Attitudes toward Sephardic language change and multilingualism expressed in La Amerika in early twentieth-century New York  -- Holly D. Vernon; title: 'Los sefardíes and 'Oriental Jews' :; title: late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century representations of Sephardic Jews in the English- and Spanish-language New York City press  -- Bethany Beyer; title: Sones sefaradíes :; title: la diversitá echa letra i muzika =; title: Sephardic sounds :; title: diversity turned lyric and music -- Liliana Tchukran de Benveniste.