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Saved by language / a film by Bryan Kirschen and Susanna Zaraysky.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: DVD-1173

Overview

Summary: "Saved by language tells the story of Moris Albahari, a Sephardic Jew from Sarajevo born in 1930. Moris spoke his mother tongue, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), to survive the Holocaust. Separdic and Bosnian music are weaved into Moris's story along the backdrop of multi-reliious and multilingual Sarajevo, his little Jerusalem. Explore Moris's story of survival and he preservation of his Sephardic heritage. Meet the remaining speakers of Ladino in Sarajevo today."--Container.
Format: Video
Published: [United States] : SBL Productions, [2014]
© 2014
Locale: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sarajevo
Other Authors/Editors: Zaraysky, Susanna, film producer, film director.
Kirschen, Bryan, film producer, film director.
Notes: Originally produced in the United States as a motion picture and released 2014.

Wide screen.

Discussion guide also available via the World Wide Web.

Co-directors and co-producers, Bryan Kirschen and Susanna Zaraysky ; cinematographer and editor, Željko Svetinović; consulting producer, Judy Chaikin, musical director, Montserrat Franco.

Disc characteristics: Recorded DVD.

English wiith optional subitles in Bosnian, English, Spanish, Ladino, or Portuguese.

Physical Details

Language: English
External Link: Discussion guide
Additional Form: Electronic version of discussion guide available internally at USHMM.
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 discussion guide (8 pages ; 28 cm)

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Ladino language--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Sarajevo. Sephardim--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Sarajevo. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Sarajevo--Personal narratives. Documentary films. Nonfiction films. Feature films. Video recordings. Personal narratives. Albahari, Moris,--1930-

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