Sarajevo Rose: A Balkan Jewish Notebook

by Stephen Schwartz

Tracing the path of the Sephardic Jews to the Balkans - following their expulsion from Spain during the Inquisition - Schwartz draws on place names, historical chronicles, epitaphs, folk ballads, banned books, and the media. He examines both the travails and remarkable cultural achievements of these communities which, hundreds of years after the trauma of forced exile, were almost entirely destroyed in the Holocaust. The richness of the literature,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0863565921
• ISBN13: 9780863565922
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Saqi Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.7"