Table Of ContentJUDEO-SPANISH BALLADS
FROM BOSNIA
THE ELEVENTH PUBLICATION
IN THE HANEY FOUNDATION SERIES
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
PUBLICATIONS IN FOLKLORE AND FOLKLIFE
Editor: Kenneth S. Goldstein; Associate Editors: Dan Ben-Amos,
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Consulting Editors: Samuel G. Armistead, Maria Brooks, Daniel
Hoffman, David Sapir, Biljana §ljivic-Simsic
No. I HENRY GLASSIE
Pattern in the Material Folk Culture
of the Eastern United States
No. 2 ALAN BRODY
The English Mummers and Their Plays:
Traces of Ancient Mystery
No. 3 PIERRE MARANDA AND ELLI KÖNGÄS MARANDA, EDITORS
Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition
No. 4 SAMUEL G. ARMISTEAD AND JOSEPH H. SILVERMAN, EDITORS
WITH THE COLLABORATION
OF BILJANA SLJIVI0-SIM§I0
Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Bosnia
Judeo - Spanish Ballads
from Bosnia
Edited by
SAMUEL G. ARMISTEAD JOSEPH H. SILVERMAN
with the collaboration of
BILJANA SLJIVlC-SlMSiC
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
PHILADELPHIA
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TO THE MEMORY
OF
CYNTHIA M. CREWS
CONTENTS
Abbreviations ix
Introduction ι
A. Five Eighteenth-Century Bosnian Ballads (Jewish National
and University Library, MS Heb. 8° 2946) 11
ι. Virgilios 16
2. Rico Franco 17
3. Silvana 18
4. La infanta deshonrada 19
5. El encuentro del padre 20
B. Kalmi Baruch's "Spanish Ballads of the Bosnian Jews" (1933) 31
1. Virgilios 42
2. Conde Olinos 43
3. Hero y Leandro 44
4. Choza del desesperado 45
5. La princesa y el segador 45
6. La vuelta del marido (i) 46
7. La vuelta del marido (d-a) 46
8. Landarico 47
9. Bemal Francis 48
10. Parto en lejas tierras 49
11. Hermanas reina y cautiva 50
12. La vuelta del hijo maldecido 51
13. El encuentro del padre 52
14. La doncella guerrera 53
15. Rico Franco 54
16. Silvana 55
17. El chuflete 56
18. Morena me llaman 57
19. El sueno profetico 57
20. Morenico sos 57
"Three Sephardic Ballads" Harmonized by B. Jungic 59
C. "Ballads of the Bosnian Sephardim" Published in the News-
paper Jevrejski Glas (c. 1939-1940) 63
1. Melisenda insomne Choza del desesperado 69
2. Hero y Leandro 70
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3. Virgilios 71
4. Hermanas reina y cautiva 72
5. Don Bueso y su hermana 73
6. Conde Olinos 74
7. La vuelta del rnarido (i) 75
8. La novia abandonada 76
9. Parto en lejas tierras 76
10. La malcasada del pastor 78
11. La mujer enganada 79
12. La adultera (ό) 8o
13A. La adultera (ά-α) 8i
13B. La adultera {ά-α) 82
14. El raptor pordiosero 82
15. La princesa y el segador -f- Delgadina 83
16. Vos labrare un pendon 84
17. La doncella guerrera 85
18. La vuelta del hijo maldecido 86
19. El encuentro del padre 86
20. El chuflete 87
21. La conversa 88
English Abstracts and Notes 89
Synoptic Table: Ballads from Bosnia in the Present Collection and
in Other Published Sources 107
Bibliography 109
Judeo-Spanish Ballads 109
Peninsular and Hispano-American Ballads 111
European Ballads 113
Indices 115
Titles of Ballads and Epics 115
First Verses 117
Motifs 119
Glossary 123
Plates
Virgilios 2 r
Rico Franco 23
Silvana 25
La infanta deshonrada 28
El encuentro del padre 29
Parto en lejas tierras 67
ABBREVIATIONS
AEM = Anuario de Estudios Medievales, Barcelona
AFC = See Bibliography: Peninsular Ballads
ART = See Bibliography: Peninsular Ballads
ASW = See Bibliography: Peninsular Ballads
Aveng = See Bibliography: Peninsular Ballads
BAE = Boletin de la Real Academia Espanola, Madrid
BAH = Boletin de la Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid
BHi = Bulletin Hispanique, Bordeaux
BHS = Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Liverpool
CE = Cultura Espanola, Madrid
CPE = See Bibliography: Peninsular Ballads
DgF = See Bibliography: European Ballads
DRH = See Bibliography: Judeo-Spanish Ballads
DVM = See Bibliography: European Ballads
HR = Hispanic Review, Philadelphia
JFI = Journal of the Folklore Institute, Bloomington
MAe = Medium Aevum, Oxford
MLN = Modern Language Notes, Baltimore
MP = See Bibliography: Judeo-Spanish Ballads
MPh = Modern Philology, Chicago
NRFH = Nueva Revista de Filologia Hispanica, Mexico City
Ν SR = See Bibliography: Judeo-Spanish Ballads
OCPC = See Bibliography: Peninsular Ballads
Primavera = See Bibliography: Peninsular Ballads
RE J = Revue des Etudes Juives, Paris
RFE — Revista de Filologia Espanola, Madrid
RFH = Revista de Filologia Hispanica, Buenos Aires
RHi = Revue Hispanique, Paris
RIHGB — Revista do Instituto Historico e Geografico Brasileiro, Rio
de Janeiro
RL -- Revista Lusitana, Lisbon
RLC = Revue de Littdrature Comparee, Paris
RLiR = Revue de Linguistique Romane, Paris
RPC = See Bibliography: Peninsular Ballads
RPh = Romance Philology, Berkeley
RPM = See Bibliography: Peninsular Ballads
RTCN = See Bibliography: Peninsular Ballads
Sef = Sefarad, Madrid
X Abbreviations
SICh = See Bibliography: Judeo-Spanish Ballads
Spomenica = See Bibliography: Judeo-Spanish Ballads
WF — Western Folklore, Berkeley
Vasconcellos, "Bibl. do Povo" = See Bibliography: Peninsular Ballads
VRP = See Bibliography: Peninsular Ballads
Yonä = See Bibliography: Judeo-Spanish Ballads
ZRPh = Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, Tübingen
