Re: Songs of the Sephardim

[Joel Bresler <jbresler...>]

This is a super article, but it's nuts to say Judeo Spanish was the 
dominant language of trade in the Balkans...

By the way, more on the amazing project underway by Prof. Armistead is at:

http://philo.ucdavis.edu/SEFARAD/

Best,

Joel

At 12:48 PM 6/7/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Don't know if anyone on the list saw this article which appeared in the
>magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, but I pass it
>along for your interest:
>
>http://www.neh.gov/publications/humanities/2000-03/sephardim.html
>
>
>George Robinson<x-html>
><BASE HREF="http://www.neh.gov/publications/humani
>         ties/2000-03/sephardim.html">
>Songs of the Sephardim
>By Pedro Ponce
>
>In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was the dominant language 
>of trade in the Balkans.


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