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This collection of eighteen papers delivered at the twelfth biennial British Judeo-Spanish Studies conference, held in London in 2001, offers a wide selection of world-wide current research into the language, literature, and history of the Sephardi Jews. With contributions by Rachel Amado Bortnick, Tracy K. Harris, Jill Kushner Bishop, Judith R. Cohen, Alexia Duchowny, Dora Mancheva, Aitor Garcia Moreno, Elaine R. Miller, Aldina Quintana, Samuel G. Armistead, Julia R. Lieberman, Ronnie Perelis, Angel Berenguer Amador, Messod Salama, Rena Molho, Rivka Havassy, Maria Esformes and Matilde...

This study focuses on the formalization of a fundamental experience of human existence: the act of perception. Unlike most other linguistic research dealing with the "prototypical" verbs of visual and auditory perception, it concentrates on the complicated polysemy of the multimodal verb sentir. The findings provide important new insight into the linguistic expression of perception in general.

La Guerra Civil española vista por grandes intelectuales del siglo XX: Thomas Mann, André Gide, Albert Camus y George Bernanos Adentrarnos hoy en la Guerra Civil española no para reabrir viejas heridas, sino para descubrir que todas las ideologías, de uno u otro signo, brutalizaron y derrotaron la unidad moral y espiritual que constituye la raíz histórica de los pueblos de España. Para grandes espíritus de aquel tiempo, como el alemán Thomas Mann, liberal conservador, la Guerra Civil constituyó "el escándalo más sucio de la historia de la humanidad", un crimen que interpelaba a la ...

This is a collection of essays of the development of the press and the significance of political oratory in 19th-century Latin America.