Konstantinopol Djudyo Una Koleksyon de Konsejas i Fotografias Jewish Constantinople A Collection of Stories and Photograph — Roz Kohen

Konstantinopol Djudyo retrata la vida Djudia durante la epoka de transformasyon del Imperio Otomano a la moderna Republika de Turkiya La ovra representa las doz generasyones anteriores de Estambol Djudyo Las konsejas semi biografikas son sovre los antepasados Kohen Benshoam Levi i Romano El livro inkluye fotografias de los arshivos de la famiya Kohen Eyos fueron las ultimas jenerasyones ke bivyeron avlando Djudeo Espanyol img src https s3 eu west 1 amazonaws com dia kitadagitim ckeditor_assets pictures 53 content_1_original_original jpg alt height 15 width 15 font size 1 color white font img

Jewish İstanbul is about the folkloric culture of its Jews and their language that survived over five centuries within the perimeters of the multicultural city of İstanbul throughout the reign of the Ottoman Empire into the 20th century It is about the journey of Judeo Spanish the language brought to the Ottoman Lands by the Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal following the Inquisition and their expulsion in 1492 The collection of childhood memoirs originally written in Judeo Spanish pay homage to this endangered language that was last transmitted to the Jewish baby boomers of İstanbul while the life of the 1950s and 1960s still carried remnants of this unique culture with long history The English translation is for the future generations to explore the language and the folklore of the Jewish İstanbul as it was once experienced by the multilingual and multicultural Jewish children of Istanbul

Konstantinopol Djudyo retrata la vida Djudia durante la epoka de transformasyon del Imperio Otomano a la moderna Republika de Turkiya La ovra representa las doz generasyones anteriores de Estambol Djudyo Las konsejas semi biografikas son sovre los antepasados Kohen Benshoam Levi i Romano El livro inkluye fotografias de los arshivos de la famiya Kohen Eyos fueron las ultimas jenerasyones ke bivyeron avlando Djudeo Espanyol Pudyeron preservar suz lengua maternala asta ke los trokamyentos provokados por las dos Gerras Mundialas trusheron fin a suz esforsoz Kon suz konsejas pasyonadas de los evenimyentos de la jenerasyon de sus padres i el uso de proverbios en Djudeo Espanyol alkansaron a preserver no solo la lingua ma la istoria kultural ke representava Jewish Constantinople portrays Jewish life during the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the modern Republic of Turkey It spans the two generations prior to the one depicted in Jewish İstanbul The semi biographical vignettes feature the Kohen Benshoam Levi and Romano family ancestors The book includes photographs from the Kohen family archives These were the last generations to grow up speaking Judeo Spanish They strove to preserve their native tongue until the changes brought by the two World Wars overwhelmed their efforts Through the passionate retelling of the previous generation s stories and the use of colorful Judeo Spanish proverbs they sought to preserve not only the language but the cultural history it embodied