Intergenerational Memory and Language of the Sarajevo Sephardim

Download or read book Intergenerational Memory and Language of the Sarajevo Sephardim written by Jonna Rock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.