Ramajana Hidic Demirovic: " Performing Tradition in Modern Times: Laura Papo Bohoreta's Search for Sephardic Women's Identity in Interwar Bosnia"
- Author: Russian and East European Institute
- Number of episodes: 1
- Web site: http://iub.edu/~reeiweb/events/2011/Demirovic.pdf
Podcast Description:
Ramajana Hidic Demirovic, a Ph.D. candidate in Eastern European History presents a chapter of her dissertation. This chapter examines Bohoreta's attempt to intrigue her public by shaping her written and theatrical work around the issues that Sephardic women of Sarajevo faced in the interwar period while simultaneously looking at the role of Bohoreta as a writer and interpreter of her own times.