More Sephardic Poems of Historical Content

Abstract

In addition to her book Entre dos (o más fuegos), where the author published poetical texts concerning different events in the history of the Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans, she offers here the edition and study of more than 20 historical poems (among them, 8 “Coplas”), written by authors such as Alexandro Pereẓ, Ya‘acob Mošeh Altaraŝ, Sa‘adi Halevi, Eliyah Carmona, etc. The texts deal with a range of variegated issues, some already previously studied, and some new, among them, the bombardment of Belgrade in 1862; the Habsburg occupation of Bosnia in 1878; the fire of Sarajevo in 1879; the Sephardic community in Constantinople in 1922; Great Britain and Palestine in 1939; the Holocaust; the independence of Israel and the tough life in the new State in 1949 and in 1952; the Cold War and the Korean War in 1952; etc.