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2009
UN RAMO DE POEMAS – A BOUQUET OF POEMS By Haim Vitali Sadacca Translations by David Fintz Altabe Edited by Robert Bedford ISBN: 978-1-886857-11-7 Haim Vitali Sadacca, who wrote and published poetry in Turkish in his younger years, now composes poetry only in Ladino, his beloved ancestral language. Now available for the first time in book form, this collection of poems reflect many elements of Sephardic culture and history, and flowing in rhyme and rhythm, they reveal Sadacca's skill as a poet and his mastery of the Ladino language. The unique collection is further distinguished with English translations, prepared especially for this collection, by the late David F. Altabe. Press
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MONASTIR WITHOUT JEWS. Recollections of a Jewish Partisan in Macedonia. By Jamila Andjela Kolonomos Edited by Robert Bedford Translated by Isaac Nehama and Brian Berman ISBN: 978-1-886857-09-4 A personal memoir recalling the fate of Monastir’s Jewish Community during the Holocaust, and eyewitness account of the Jewish presence in the Yugoslav Resistance, as recalled by a highly decorated Jewish Partisan from Yugoslavia. Adapted from the Ladino compilation, MONASTIR SIN DJUDIOS, and appearing for the first time in English, with the addition of 150 personal and archival photographs. Press
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TRADITIONS & CUSTOMS OF THE SEPHARDIC JEWS OF SALONICA. Michael Molho Edited by Robert Bedford Translated by Alfred A. Zara ISBN-13: 978-1-886857-08-7, ISBN-10: 1-886857-08-3 Appearing for the first time in the English language, Traditions and Customs is one of the most picturesque and colorful accounts of the heritage and culture of the Sephardic Jews of Salonica, written in 1940 by the late Rabbi Michael Molho, renowned writer and historian on the Jewish community of Salonica. Press Release PDF Format |