The House of Jacob
In this touching and beautifully written book, Courtine-Denamy traces her family's exile after their expulsion in 1492 at the time of Spanish unification. Their journey leads her to the exotic ports of Salonika, Constantinople' Bayonne, and Varna, to the cosmopolitan centers of Vienna and Paris, to America and Israel, and to Auschwitz. As she notes, while place and time separate us from those we love or never knew, something continues to link us. For Courtine-Denamy this something is, in part, language--the Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) that is still spoken, whether on the banks of the Danube, on the Aegean Sea, or along the quays of the Seine. This…
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Weitere Autoren: Kristeva, Julia (Solist) / Sayers, William (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8014-4065-6
- EAN: 9780801440656
- Produktnummer: 9526218
- Verlag: Cornell Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.6 cm x D1.8 cm 376 g
- Gewicht: 376
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