<p>In this article I deal with a topic that, up to the date, has received little attention: the courtships in the Ottoman Sephardic world, and how they affected to the family network. Ten texts –eight in prose, and two in verse–, written by men and published between 1889 and 1908 in the Thessa...

The writer and journalist Carmen de Burgos, known as Colombine’s pseudonym, launched the first Spanish campaign in favour of Saudi culture, through the ‘Critica Revista’, founded by herself in 1908. In setting up the Hispano-Israelita Association, he devoted a speciality to the creation of the Hispa...

The Cantionary of Abraham Israel is a manuscript kept in the Spanish National Library, copied by a seaside man from Gibraltar between the 60s and 70th century. It contains multiple popular songs, Romance, other poems, a list of comedies and a version of the Romce of Quevedo’s ‘Black Boda’, probably...

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Study on the seaside luctuous poetry in the Eastern Mediterranean and Morocco, both the one sometimes used in particular showcasing and the religious festivity of Tisá beab. Following a classification of luctuous poetry by genus, the philological edition is given, with a study of 14 luctuous poems i...

Discover various aspects of the production, dissemination and use of books among the Sefardis in the Mediterranean East, with particular attention to the 18th to 20th centuries.

Panoramica and state of play on the various types of Jewish influences in Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the 17th century, taking into account both works written by Jews, converts and Christians, including anti-Jewish literature

<p>In this article I present a brief sample of the first results of a work in development on the versions in the Judeo-Spanish <em>Séfer torá Ḥobot</em> <em>halebabot</em> (‘Book of doctrine «Duties of hearts»’), title in Hebrew that Yehudá ibn Tibón (12th century) gave...

The aim of this article is to put this in mind how different medieval stories of the Spanish-Spanish tradition have lived in contemporary sefari culture. To this end, we have structured the work in several parts: an introduction, a comparison between the medieval story and the konseja sefari, a brie...

I want to live without seeing me. Led by Bruno Bigoni, Francesca Lolli. Production of Minnie Ferrara, Mario Castagna, PACTA del Teatri, 2019Alessia Cassani, A slow llamada homeland: EL judeoespañol en la literatura sefardí contemporánea, Barcelona, Anthropos Editorial, 2019, 130 pp. ISBN 978-84-1755...

The Séfer ha, erit work (hb. ‘The book of the alliance’), written in hebrew by Pin, as Hurwitz Eliyahu (Vilnius, 1765 — Krakow, 1821), an Aschenazi author of Eastern Europe, was first published in 1797 in Brno in Moravia. Since then, it was printed in forty editions in Hebrew, Idiki and JudeoSpanish...

Project Hum2006-03050/FILO of the Ministry of Science in Innovation

Included in Extraordinary Volume No 1 of the Oral Literature Bulletin entitled: The landscapes of the voice. Oral literature and field research, edited by David Mañero Lozano and David González Ramírez [ES] This article provides a critical approach to the main work of documentation and studies focus...

Different aspects linking sefari Romanians to Portuguese history and tradition are analysed: Syrian Romanians’ themes dealing with the history of Portugal, Romans of Portuguese cryptoJews, Romans that only occur in the Syrian and Portuguese tradition, and possible influence of Portuguese judairer co...