Intergenerational Memory and Language of the Sarajevo Sephardim
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Addresses intergenerational memory and theories of identity-formation and sociology of language Gives voice to different experiences in relation to linguistic and Jewish identity and its formation in Sarajevo Uses a qualitative approach based on participant observation, in order to examine a wide spectrum of identity conceptions
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Jonna Rock
Themen in »Intergenerational Memory and Language of the Sarajevo Sephardim«
language ideology language attitudes intergenerational memory Islamization oral history Jewish culture comparative history sephardic studies Yugoslavia Bosnia and Herzegovina anti-semitism Holocaust studies Israel Spain Hebrew
Stimmen zu »Intergenerational Memory and Language of the Sarajevo Sephardim«
“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 Vučina Simović, BEOIBERISTICA, Vol. 4 (1), 2020)()