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Through the poetry of Bouena Sarfatty (1916-1997), An Ode to Salonika sketches the life and demise of the Sephardi Jewish community that once flourished in this Greek crossroads city. A resident of Salonika who survived the Holocaust as a partisan and later settled in Canada, Sarfatty preserved the traditions and memories of this diverse and thriving Sephardi community in some 500 Ladino poems known as coplas. The coplas also describe the traumas the community faced under German occupation before the Nazis deported its Jewish residents to Auschwitz. The coplas in Ladino and in Renée Levine

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Jews --- Jewish women --- Coplas --- Ladino poetry --- Ladino literature --- Folk songs, Spanish --- Poetry --- Spanish poetry --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Women, Jewish --- Women --- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) --- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Nazi --- Ḥurban (1939-1945) --- Ḥurbn (1939-1945) --- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) --- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) --- Nazi Holocaust --- Nazi persecution of Jews --- Shoʾah (1939-1945) --- Genocide --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) --- Intellectual life --- Social life and customs --- Nazi persecution --- Persecutions --- Atrocities --- Jewish resistance --- Garfinkle, Bouena Sarfatty, --- Thessalonikē (Greece) --- Greece --- Thessalonike --- Salanik (Greece) --- Salonica (Greece) --- Salonicco (Greece) --- Salonika (Greece) --- Saloniki (Greece) --- Salonique (Greece) --- Sālūnīk (Greece) --- Selânik (Greece) --- Solonika (Turkey) --- Solun (Greece) --- Thessalonica (Greece) --- Thessaloníki (Greece) --- Thessalonique (Greece) --- Thesszaloniki (Greece) --- Θεσσαλονίκη (Greece) --- Selânik (Turkey) --- History --- Thessalonike (Greece) --- Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi persecution (1939-1945)