Sepharad as Imagined Community

This volume is a multidisciplinary contribution to Sephardic studies, including chapters by some of the best-known authorities in the field, interspersed with those of young scholars who have begun making their mark in current research. The text aims to enrich this emerging field through historical linguistic studies as well as investigations based on contemporary movements, recent literary creations, and the issues involved in contemporary revival.

The chapters presented in this collection include a selection of papers originally presented at the symposium "Sepharad as Imagined Community: Language, History and Religion from the Early Modern Period to the 21st Century," as well as pioneering contributions by other key scholars. Two notable additions include innovative explorations of Judeo-Spanish on the Internet.

Auteur

Mahir Saul (Ph.D. in anthropology, Indiana University) is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on West African ethnography, anthropology, history, and migration and Judeo-Spanish language and culture. José Ignacio Hualde (Ph.D. in linguistics, University of Southern California) is Professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research is in the field of phonology and historical linguistics, focusing primarily on the Romance languages and Basque.

Contenu

Mahir Saul/José Ignacio Hualde: Sepharad as Imagined Translocal Mediterranean Community: Introduction - John Zemke: An Overlooked 15th Century «demand d'amor» in Hebrew «alxamía»: Parma Biblioteca Palatina 2666, folio 207 «verso» - Olga Borovaya: How Old Is Ladino Literature? - Aldina Quintana: Historical Overview and Outcome of Three Portuguese Patterns in Judeo-Spanish: «quer(em)-se» + part. in Active Constructions, the wh-operator o «que», and the Inflected Infinitive - Matthew Maddox: The Syntactic Structure of Liturgical Ladino: Construct State Nominals, Multiple Determiners, and Verbless Sentences - Pamela Dorn Sezgin: «Ke Haber/Ne Haber»: Linguistic Interference, Cross-Meaning, and Lexical Borrowing between Ottoman Turkish and Judeo-Spanish - Matthias B . Lehmann: Networks of Patronage and the Making of Two Ladino Newspapers - Elisa Martín Ortega: Itzhak Benveniste and Reina Hakohén: Narrative and Essay for Sephardic Youth - Marie-Christine Bornes Varol: The Invention of Eastern Judeo-Spanish: The Betrayals of Spanish in the Re-romanization Process (End of 19th Century) and Its Consequences - Aitor García Moreno: Salomon Israel Cherezli's «Nuevo chico diccionario udeo- español-francés» (Jerusalem 1898-1899) as a Judeo-Spanish Monolingual Dictionary - Eliezer Papo: The Creation of the State of Israel and Its Impact on the Self-Image of the Sephardim, as Reflected in Judeo-Spanish Parodic War Haggadahs - Paloma Díaz-Mas: The Hispanic Legacy and Sephardic Culture: Sephardim and Hispanists in the First Half of the 20th Century - Agnieszka August-Zarebska: Contemporary Judeo-Spanish Poetry in Its Rediscovery of the Past - Rey Romero «En tierras virtualas»: Sociolinguistic Implications for Judeo-Spanish as a Cyber-vernacular - Ana Stulic/Soufiane Rouissi: Judeo-Spanish on the Web - Index of Personal Names - Index of Subjects.