Una madre...: a Judeo-Spanish Song and Its Resonances
Una madre...: a Judeo-Spanish Song and Its Resonances
Author(s): Eleazar GutwirthSubject(s): Jewish studies, Middle Ages, Jewish Thought and Philosophy
Published by: Argonaut
Keywords: Sephardi studies; Judeo-Spanish literature; Genizah texts; destruction of Jerusalem; Hispano-Jewish culture;
Summary/Abstract: The discovery of three different early modern (but with late medieval content?) Cairene MSS in Judeo-Spanish, whose codicological independence from each other is clear because of differences in paleography, mise en page and textual variants, justifies a return to the motif of “the mother who ate her child”. A translation into English of the MS fragments is followed by comparisons with e.g. Near Eastern and Greco-Roman sources. Attention is paid to the new unprecedented elements in the Genizah texts and an attempt to contextualize them is made.
Journal: Studia Judaica
- Issue Year: 23/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 25-50
- Page Count: 26
- Language: English