The column "Para noče de šabat" as a local strategy of memory of the Judeo-Spanish tradition ; Rubrika „Para noče de šabat“ kao lokalna strategija sećanja na judeo-špansku tradiciju

The article elaborates on the attempts of the editors of the Jewish weekly „Jevrejski glas“ (published in Sarajevo in 1928-1941) to support fostering of the Sephardi tradition and Judeo-Spanish language during the period in which an inevitable process of language shift took place among the Sephardi citizens of Bosnia. The column „Para noče de šabat“, created with the help of the weekly’s readers, was one of the means serving that purpose. In the majority of the texts the main characters were Sephardi women, especially of the older generation, the women called tijas (aunts). For that reason, th... Mehr ...