An Ode to Salonika(English, Hardcover, Melammed Renee Levine)

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An Ode to Salonika(English, Hardcover, Melammed Renee Levine) is written by Melammed Renee Levine and published by Indiana University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0253006813 (ISBN 10) and 9780253006813 (ISBN 13).

Through the poetry of Bouena Sarfatty (1916-1997), An Ode to Salonika sketches the life and demise of the Sephardi Jewish community that once flourished in this Greek crossroads city. A resident of Salonika who survived the Holocaust as a partisan and later settled in Canada, Sarfatty preserved the traditions and memories of this diverse and thriving Sephardi community in some 500 Ladino poems known as coplas. The coplas also describe the traumas the community faced under German occupation before the Nazis deported its Jewish residents to Auschwitz. The coplas in Ladino and in Renee Levine Melammed's English translation are framed by chapters that trace the history of the Sephardi community in Salonika and provide context for the poems. This unique and moving source provides a rare entree into a once vibrant world now lost.