Offprints of articles and reviews by Cynthia Crews, 1929 - 1970
Scope and Contents
These are of particular value in that certain of her contributions were published in journals which are not easily accessible. Including the following:
1) The Mother-in-Law, translated into English from the Roumanian of Ion Creanga: in Slavonic Review VII, 1929
2) Judaeo-Spanish Folk Tales in Macedonia, in English, with introductory background to the people and places of the stories: offprint from Folk-Lore, June 1932
3) Two Salonica Consejicas (two short stories, entitled 'Elijah and the Devil' and 'The Tailor and the Hakham'), in Judaeo-Spanish, as told to CC in 1935 by Tia Meru Levy in Salonica: in Le Judaisme Sephardi, published by La Federation Sephardite Mondiale, June 1955
4) Miscellanea Hispano-Judaica II, being a selection of Judaeo-Spanish words to 'show yet more clearly the mixed character of this language which is without a literary norm.': offprint from Vox Romanica, Bern 1961
5) Reflections on Judaeo-Spanish by a Spanish Jew (originally part of an article printed in June 1938 in La Aksyon, a Judaeo-Spanish daily newspaper written in Hebrew characters which appeared in Salonica until after the outbreak of the 1939 war), based on a discussion in 1936 between CC and Bezalel Levy, who was born in Salonica in about 1870 and whose native language was Judaeo-Spanish: offprint from Vox Romanica, Bern 1962
6) The Vulgar Pronunciation of Hebrew in the Judaeo-Spanish of Salonica, based on two months investigation by CC in 1935, in particular the language and pronunciation of Mme Meru Levy, born about 1880 of parents and grandparents who were natives of Salonica: offprint from The Journal of Jewish Studies Vol XIII Nos. 1-4, 1962
7) and 7a) A Judeo-Spanish Medical MS (ca. 1400-1450) [part of Bodleian Library MS Heb.e.63]: offprint from Vox Romanica, Bern 1964. 2 copies - one copy contains annotations by CC
8) Corrigenda in 'A Judeo-Spanish Medical MS (ca. 1400-1450)': offprint from Vox Romanica, Bern 1965
9) A Possibly Italianate Judeo-Spanish MS, concerning a manuscript lent to CC by Dr Cecil Roth and probably dating from not earlier than 1500: offprint from Scritti sull'Ebraismo in memoria di Guido Bedarida, Florence 1966
10) One Hundred Medical Recipes in Judeo-Spanish of ca 1600, being a transliteration of folios 95r to 102v inclusive of Bodleian Library MS Heb.e.63: offprint from Revue des Etudes Juives Vol. CXXVI April-September 1967
11) Some Data Concerning Medical Nomenclature in Sixteenth-Century Judeo-Spanish, being the text of a paper given by CC at a symposium, giving details concerning a manuscript containing one hundred medical prescriptions, written probably in Turkey in pseudo-Judeo-Spanish in Hebrew characters without vowel-points, probably no earlier than 1550: offprint from Actas del Primer Simposio de Estudios Sefardies, published by the Instituto 'Arias Montano', Madrid 1970
12) Ignacio Miguel Gonzalez Llubera, 1893-1962 (an obituary for Llubera, Emeritus Professor of Spanish in the Queen's University of Belfast, written by CC): offprint from Vox Romanica, Bern 1962
13) In Memoriam: Max Leopold Wagner, Ignacio Gonzalez Llubera and Arnald Steiger: offprint from Tesoro de los Judios Sefardies: Estudios sobre la Historia de los Judios Sefardies y su Cultura, Vol. VII, Jerusalem 1964
14) M Molho, Literatura Sefardita de Oriente (review by CC), in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Vol. XXXVIII, 1961
15) Brief notice by CC concerning Manuel Alvar's bibliography (Dialectologia Espanola, Madrid 1962), in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Vol. XLI, 1964
16) Rebecca R Posner, Consonantal Dissimilation in the Romance Languages (review by CC), in The Girton Review, Easter Term 1962
17) Luis Florez, Temas de Castellano: Notas de Divulgacion (review by CC), in Romance Philology, University of California Press, Vol. XV, No. 3, February 1962
18) Yakov Malkiel, Studies in the Reconstruction of Hispano-Latin Word Families - (review by CC), in Vox Romanica, Vol. XIV, 1954-5
19) Die Sprache der Juden in Spanien vor der Vertreibung, in Der Ruf, Jan/Feb 1936.
Dates
- Creation: 1929 - 1970
Creator
- From the Fonds: Crews, Cynthia Mary, 1906 - 1969 (nee Jopson, linguist) (Person)
Extent
1 file(s) : Paper
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
1/1-18
Existence and Location of Copies
These articles are also available in a bound volume, compiled by Elizabeth V M Beckingham (nee Brine), in Girton College Library at 869.9.
Originator(s)
Crews, Cynthia
Finding aid date
2007-11-26 12:42:53+00:00
Repository Details
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