Siempre Judía: a Sephardic Novel

Abstract

Concerning sephardic literature, novel is one of the latest and less fertile kinds in what refers to originality. Siempre judia is a short historical novel, published as a booklet in 1920 and typically Jewish in its contents, a rarity specially interesting for sephardic literature investigators. It reports the vicissitudes of a Jewish young woman from Kiev, survivor to one of the most sanguinary massacres in Jewish european communities history. Sara has to protect herself from her family murderer, in whose house she serves, whom she finally kills to save her honour. The edition consists in its rasi characters transcription according to the standard system adopted by the «Instituto Arias Montano» to the CSIC sephardic publications enclosed in the cover of Sejarad review.