The Romance-Speaking Balkans

Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković, Ph.D. (2010), Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, is Senior Resеаrch Associate at the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Academy. She has edited and authored several books and over 50 articles on the Romanian-speaking populations in the Balkans. Mihai Dragnea, Ph.D. (2018), University of South-Eastern Norway, is Associate Researcher at the Department of Business, History and Social Sciences at that university. Interested in ethnicity and conflict in the Balkans, he is the president of the Balkan History Association and editor of Hiperboreea. Thede Kahl, Ph.D. (1999), habil. (2006), Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, is Professor of South Slavic Studies, and Chairman of the Commission “Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage” (Austrian Academy of Sciences). He has published several books on Balkan dialectology and ethnography. Blagovest Njagulov, Ph.D. (1988), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, is Associate Professor at the Institute for Historical Studies in Sofia. He is a specialist in modern and contemporary history of Bulgaria, ethnic politics and minority protection in the Balkans. Donald Dyer, Ph.D. (1990), University of Chicago, is Distinguished Professor of Modern Languages and an Associate Dean at the University of Mississippi. He has written or edited over 30 volumes and 45 articles, and currently serves as the editor of Balkanistica. Angelo Costanzo, Ph.D. (2011), Ohio State University, is Associate Professor of English and Linguistics at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include the morphology of the lesser-studied Romance languages (Aromanian, Catalan, and Sicilian).

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Notes on Editors

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Introduction



1 From Rashi to Cyrillic: Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish (Judezmo) Texts in Cyrillic

 Michael Studemund-Halévy



2 Political Terror and Repressed Aromanian Core Identity: Ways to Re-assert and Develop Ethnolinguistic Identity

 Cătălin Mamali



3 Sociolinguistic Relations and Return Migration: Italian in the Republic of Moldova

 Anna-Christine Weirich



4 Between Ethnicity, Regionalism, and Familial Memory: Identity Dilemmas among the Eastern Romance Communities of the Balkan Peninsula

 Ewa Nowicka



5 Identity Constructions among the Members of the Aromanian Community in the Korçë Area

 Daniela-Carmen Stoica



6 Megleno-Romanians in the Serbian Banat: Colonization and Assimilation

 Mircea Măran



7 Nation-State Ideology and Identity and Language Rights of Linguistic Minorities: Prospects for the Vlashki/Zheyanski-Speaking Communities

 Zvjezdana Vrzić



8 “What Language Do We Speak?” The Bayash in the Balkans and Mother Tongue Education

 Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković



9 Performing Vlach-ness Online: The Enregisterment of Vlach Romanian on Facebook

 Monica Huțanu



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