Alegría Bendayán de Bendelac
Born1928
Caracas, Venezuela
Died2020
NationalityVenezuelan
Occupation(s)philologist, professor, writer and Jewish poet

Alegría Bendayán de Bendelac (April 19, 1928 – April 5, 2020) was a Venezuelan philologist, professor, writer and Jewish poet.[1][2] During her career she was dedicated to studying sephardic culture, especially the Judeo-Spanish language of northern Morocco. She was professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania and published several works about sephardic traditions.

Biography

Alegría Bendayán de Bendelac is the fourth of five siblings, daughter of Moroccan immigrants from Tétouan who arrived at Villa de Cura, Aragua state. Her parents were Abraham Bendayan and Rachel Cohen of Bendayan.[3][4] Soon their parents settled in Caracas.[1] She married Rafael Bendelac on June 24, 1953.[5] The couple had two daughters, Mercedes and Lisa.[3]

In 1963 she emigrated to New York, where she worked as a French teacher in various schools. Subsequently, she graduated in French at Columbia University and then obtained a PhD in French Literature at the same university.[1][4] After graduating, she began teaching at Fordham University and later joined Penn State University.[1] Among her works are dictionaries and historical investigations of Sephardic language and traditions, she was also dedicated to writing poetry.

She died of natural causes at the age of 91 in Kew Gardens, NY.[2]

Works

  • Diccionario del Judeoespañol de Los Sefardíes del Norte de Marruecos (1995)[6]
  • Voces Jaquetiescas (1990)[6]
  • Los Nuestros. Sejiná, Letuarios, Jaquetía y Fraja. Un retrato de los sefardíes del Norte de Marruecos a través de sus recuerdos y su lengua (1860-1984) (1987)[7][8]
  • Structures du rêve et de la realité dans Sylvie (1975)[9]
  • Typical Sephardic weddings in Tangier, Morocco (c.1930-c.1950) (1986)
  • Tourmaline II (1973)[9]
  • Mosaique: Une enfance juive a Tanger (1930-1945) (1992)[9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Alegria Bendelac, Oral History Memoir". NYPL Digital Collections. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  2. 1 2 "Alegria Bendelac Obituario - Forest Hills, NY". Dignity Memorial (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-09-06.
  3. 1 2 "Alegria Bendelac". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  4. 1 2 "1910 - 1940 - Barry & Mercedes Huber". Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  5. ↑ "Alegria & Raphaël's wedding invitation". Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  6. 1 2 "Centro de Estudios Sefardíes de Caracas". centroestudiossefardiesdecaracas.com. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  7. ↑ "CVC. Anuario 2001. Un viaje por "Sefarad": la fortuna del judeoespañol. Como conclusión: ¿"adío" al judeoespañol? Carmen Hernández González". cvc.cervantes.es (in Spanish). CVC. Centro Virtual Cervantes. Retrieved 2018-02-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. ↑ "La Nuestra Novia". www.analitica.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2011-09-08.
  9. 1 2 3 Bendelac, Alegría (1975). BnF Catalogue général. Collection Essai (in French). Éditions de l'Athanor. ISBN 9782705100537. Retrieved 2018-02-23. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
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