Intergenerational Memory and Language of the Sarajevo Sephardim

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.

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

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt

Chapter One: Introduction and Methodology.- Chapter Two: Theoretical Points of Commencement.- Chapter Three: A Transformation of the Sephardic Communities and Sarajevo Sephardic Attitudes Towards Yugoslavia, Spain and Israel.- Chapter Four: Local Identity of the Sephardim in Sarajevo.- Chapter Five: Parallel Cases of Linguistic and Ethnic Identity Formation in European Minority Groups.- Chapter Six: Summary of the Findings and Conclusions.