Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Bosnia

by Samuel G. Armistead

The Judeo-Spanish folk literature of the Sephardic Jews of Bosnia, and with it their uncommonly rich balladry, has remained largely unknown to Western scholars. Since their move to Sarajevo in the sixteenth century, Serob-Croatian has displaced their original Spanish, and the entire culture is rapidly approaching extinction.

This book preserved for posterity three fundamentally important groups of these rare ballads: Kalmi Baruch's Spanski...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812276310
• ISBN13: 9780812276312
• Release Date: July 1971
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 140 Pages