Intergenerational Memory and Language of the Sarajevo Sephardim

Jonna Rock (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XVII, 283 Seiten

2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-14045-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Jonna Rock currently works for the Silent Heroes Memorial Center in Berlin, Germany. She has published book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals including Nationalities Papers and Judaica Petropolitana. This is her first monograph, based on her doctoral thesis submitted at the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

Chapter One: Introduction and Methodology.- Chapter Two: Theoretical Points of Commencement.- Chapter Three: A Transformation of the Sephardic Communities and Sarajevo Sephardic Attitudes Towards Yugoslavia, Spain and Israel.- Chapter Four: Local Identity of the Sephardim in Sarajevo.- Chapter Five: Parallel Cases of Linguistic and Ethnic Identity Formation in European Minority Groups.- Chapter Six: Summary of the Findings and Conclusions.

"The book is of great value as a multidisciplinary monograph ... . The monograph by Jonna Rock is actually a collection of an impressive amount of questions, motives and aspects that complement each other in the presented analysis. I am sure that some of them could be a separate subject of further studies. The small community in Sarajevo has become a fascinating and valuable area of research that can surely be interesting of various scholars." (Aleksandra Twardowska, Ethnologia Balkanica, Vol. 23 (2), 2022)

"This valuable and well edited book offers a methodologically novel and fresh approach to etnolinguistic identity of the Sephardim living in present-day Sarajevo." (Ivana Vucina Simovic, BEOIBERISTICA, Vol. 4 (1), 2020)

Erscheinungsdatum	28.04.2019
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 283 p. 13 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	524 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Anti-Semitism • Bosnia and Herzegovina • comparative history • Hebrew • historical anthropology • Holocaust studies • intergenerational memory • Islamization • Israel • Jewish Culture • Language attitudes • Language ideology • Oral History • sephardic studies • Spain • Yugoslavia
ISBN-10	3-030-14045-8 / 3030140458
ISBN-13	978-3-030-14045-8 / 9783030140458
Zustand	Neuware