{"product_id":"9783700166016","title":"Tondokumente aus dem Phonogrammarchiv, Gesamtausgabe der historischen Bestande 18991950, Series 12: Judeo-Spanish from the Balkans. The Recordings by Julius Subak (1908) and Max A. Luria (1927)","description":"During 1908\/1909, Julius Subak (1872-1936), an Austrian Romance scholar, was entrusted by the Balkans Commission of the Imperial Academy of Sciences to record, both in writing and phonographically, the Judeo-Spanish of the Balkan Peninsula. He conducted his primarily linguistic investigation among the descendants of those Sephardim who - expelled from Spain in 1492 - had sought refuge in the Balkans, then part of the Ottoman Empire. The resulting 15 Phonogramme are said to be the first recordings of Judeo-Spanish (or Ladino) made for scholarly purposes. They contain chiefly poems and romances (the orally transmitted ballads from medieval Spain), but also songs and a passionate appeal to preserve the Judeo-Spanish language. Subak even succeeded in recording prominent representatives of Sarajevo's Sephardic community - such as Abraham A. Cappon, who is reciting from his own works. In 1927, the US-American Max A. Luria (1891-1966) undertook linguistic field research in Monastir (present-day Bitola, FYROM) as part of his doctoral dissertation. Equipped with an Archivphonograph, he made a total of 26 recordings which - featuring proverbs and dialogues, but above all numerous konsezas (folktales) - bring to life again this particularly conservative dialect of Judeo-Spanish. The contributions by Aldina Quintana Rodriguez, Edwin Seroussi and Rivka Havassy as well as Paloma Diaz-Mas highlight the importance of these unique sound documents, especially for Judeo-Spanish dialectology, but also for the study of Sephardic music and literature. Together with the transcriptions, they constitute a valuable supplement to the recorded witnesses of a once flourishing culture on the eve of cataclysmic changes.","brand":"Austrian Academy of Sciences Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052392300784,"sku":"9783700166016","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783700166016_p0.jpg?v=1763669774","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783700166016","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}