Tag Archives: Balkans

LANGUAGE CHOICE OF SEPHARDIM IN BELGRADE IN THE MODERN TIME The topic of this article is the language choice of the Sephardim in Belgrade in the age of modernization (from the end of the 19th century to the 1940s). The analysis done in this paper shows that the interest for study and …

Read the English version El teatro sefardí en Shumen Shumen, la ciudad universitaria e industrial del noreste de Bulgaria, antes llamada Shumla, y desde 1950 a 1965 renombrada como Kolarovgrad en la Bulgaria socialista, yace en las laderas de la meseta de Shumen, a unas 60 millas del puerto de la ciudad …

Ir a versión en español Sefardi theatre in Shumen The northeastern Bulgarian industrial and university town Shumen – earlier called Shumla and from 1950 to 1965 renamed Kolarovgrad in socialist Bulgaria – lies on the eastern slopes of the Shumen Plateau, some 60 miles from the port city of Varna. In 1869, there …

The status and sustainability of minority/dominated languages in the 21st century are very much influenced by general and language ideologies of times gone by. Namely, Eurocentric modernity-driven language policy and planning, which result in the formation of standard language culture ideologies, are at the core of the cultural, political and historical frameworks which, since …

While YIVO is primarily known for its scholarship and collections related to East European Ashkenazic Jewry, its library and archives also hold important books and artifacts related to Sephardic Jewish heritage. For instance, the YIVO Archives is home to the Records of the Jewish Community of Salonika and the William …