Bulgarian Sephradian Jews and the Ladino Language in the Kaleidoscope of Identities

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 464-469
Author(s):  
Ventsislav Bozhinov
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Sephardic Jews ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Anthropological Study

Review of Lea Davcheva's book „Kaleidoscope of Identities. Personal stories of Sephardic Jews in Bulgaria about the Ladino language“. Lea Davcheva's book is an anthropological study which examines the community of Bulgarian Sephardim through the prism of the special interaction between the cultural and ethnic identity of the community and its Ladino language.

scholarly journals "Cultural Narrative" about European Identity in the Context of Personal Stories (Reflections on the Book by Orlando Figes)

2021 ◽  
pp. 415-420
Author(s):  
Н.Б. Селунская ◽  
А.В. Карагодин
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
Narrative History ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
European Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Xix Century

Статья содержит рефлексии по поводу книги известного английского историка-рос-сиеведа О. Файджеса «Европейцы. Три жизни и рождение космополитической культуры», его подхода к репрезентации биографической истории И.С. Тургенева, П. Ви-ардо и Л. Виардо в контексте складывания общеевропейской культуры во второй по-ловине XIX века. Особое внимание уделено методологической значимости присутствующих в рецензируемой книге и формирующихся в современной историографии таких трендов как «новый нарратив», «история репрезентаций» и «новая биографическая история», а также дискуссии о смыслах концепта «европейскости» как характеристики над-этнической идентичности и о ее проявлениях на микро- и макро-уровнях в меняющемся и модернизирующемся историко-культурном пространстве Российской империи и Европы в XIX в. The article contains reflections on the book by a famous English historian – Russian scholar O. Figes "Europeans. Three lives and the birth of cosmopolitan culture", his approaches to the representation of the biographical history of I. S. Turgenev, P. Viardot and L. Viardot in the context of the formation of pan-European culture in the second half of the XIX century. Special attention is paid to the methodological significance of such trends as "new narrative", "history of representations" and "new biographical history" present in the reviewed book and emerging in modern historiography, as well as discussions about the meanings of the concept of "Europeanness" as a characteristic of supra-ethnic identity and about its manifestations at micro and macro levels in the changing and modernizing historical and cultural space of the Russian Empire and Europe in the XIX century.

scholarly journals The Sephardic Jewish community of Nis

2016 ◽  
pp. 995-1011
Author(s):  
Milena Vidosavljevic
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Good Care ◽  
World War ◽  
Sephardic Jews ◽  
The City ◽  
New Phase

In 1492, Sephardic population was expelled from Spain, which spurred a great migration and caused them to seek refuge in other countries. One of these places of refuge was the city of Nis. Having arrived in the city on the Nisava River, a new phase of life for Sephardim began in the 17th century. They slowly built their society, taking a good care of their culture, language, customs, traditions, religion, in a word, of their ethnic identity. In this regard, the objective of this paper is to point to the existence and importance of a small community of Sephardic Jews in the city of Nis and its vital existence from the Turkish time until the beginning of World War II. This community was very active in the city, and it spawned great merchants, bankers, craftsmen, and individuals who participated in wars and thus helped local Serbian population. This community also invested in education of the youth and the creation of Jewish societies, whose role was to provide assistance to all members of the community. The desire for survival and creation was unshakeable, but inhumane events in 1941, when a large number of Jews were killed, stopped the Sephardic community in its intents and dealt a severe blow to this nation.

Ethnic Identity and Personal Identity.

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph H. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Personal Identity

What, How, and Why of Ethnic Identity: Not for Ethnics Only

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-398
Author(s):  
Kathryn J. Lindholm
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity

Examining Ethnic Identity Through New Lenses

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (35) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Jones Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity
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