Judeo-Spanish Ballads from New York: Collected by Mair Jose Bernardete

by Samuel G. Armistead

Book Overview

In New York City during the winter of 1922 and the spring of 1923, Mair Jose Benardete recorded the texts of the thirty-nine traditional ballads published in this volume. His collection, the beginning of Judeo-Spanish ballad research in America, was assembled when the oral tradition was still rich and vigorous among immigrants to New York from the Sephardic settlements of the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. Among the ballads are a number of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520306481
• ISBN13: 9780520306486
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"