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Intergenerational Memory and Language of the Sarajevo Sephardim

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Authors:
  1. Jonna Rock

    1. Institut für Slawistik, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  • 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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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction and Methodology

    • Jonna Rock
    Pages 1-16

  3. Theoretical Points of Commencement

    • Jonna Rock
    Pages 17-39

  4. A Transformation of the Sephardic Communities and Sarajevo Sephardic Attitudes Toward Yugoslavia, Spain and Israel

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    Pages 41-143

  5. Local Identity of the Sephardim in Sarajevo

    • Jonna Rock
    Pages 145-206

  6. Parallel Cases of Linguistic and Ethnic Identity Formation in European Minority Groups

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    Pages 207-226

  7. Summary of Findings and Conclusions

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    Pages 227-247

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 249-283
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About this book

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.

Reviews

“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)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Slawistik, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Jonna Rock

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Intergenerational Memory and Language of the Sarajevo Sephardim

  • Authors: Jonna Rock

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14046-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14045-8Published: 26 April 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14046-5Published: 10 April 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 283

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Jewish Cultural Studies, Cultural History, Memory Studies, Semitic Languages

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