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| | Oral Literature of the Sephardic Jews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | [3] This aspect of the Exile, as a gradual, ongoing process, was to have an important impact on the folk literature of the exiled communities. |
 | | Though there are, as we shall see, traces of ballads from as early as the mid-16th century, oral literature in Judeo-Spanish began to be collected only in the late 19th century. |
 | | All the same, an important corpus of folktales, rigorously transcribed in close phonetic notation, was brought together early on, because scholars looked upon the folktales primarily as samples of the spoken language, while later collecting—following World War II and the Holocaust—recognized them for their own intrinsic value. |
| www.sephardifolklit.org /flsj/sjjs/orallit/Oral_Lit_Sephardic.html (8799 words) |
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