Sepharad as Imagined Community

Language, Culture and Religion from the Early Modern Period to the 21st Century

September 2-3, 2014, Room 210 Illini Union

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

1. Presentation: digital library Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews 
by Bruce Rosenstock, UIUC

This conference is timely for our campus since the UIUC library now hosts the digital library Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews, the largest online collection of Sephardic and Hispanic folk literature in the world, which was developed over four decades by Samuel Armistead, Joseph Silverman, and ethnomusicologist Israel J. Katz, and the basis for many important publications. Bruce Rosenstock of the Dept. of Religious Studies, worked with Prof Armistead to digitize, transcribe, and create a website for nearly 2,500 fully-edited transcription files with associated audio files through a multi-year, half-million dollar grant from the NSF Digital Library Initiative for which he was co-PI, and he will give a presentation on this project during the conference.

2. Presentation: Sefardiweb
by Paloma Díaz-Mas, CSIC, Spain

 

 

 

 

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