Jamila Andjela Kolonomos: De las memorias al libro conmemorativo

J. A. Kolonomos (born 1922) is a Sephardic author from Bitola/Monastir (Macedonia). She has published various books, but the focus of the analysis is on Monastir sin Djudios (2006) i.e. the English version published under the title Monastir without Jews. Recollections of a Jewish Partisan in Macedonia (2008). The latter is important as one of the very few first-hand accounts of the Holocaust in Macedonia; a unique example of Sephardic women's writing in Macedonia; as an expression of the collective memory of a lost community; as an expression of the subjective and personal aspect of individual experience; as a literary text. The article highlights the literary quality of some segments and shows how the feminine perspective is articulated in the narrative. It also argues that this essentially eclectic narrative moves from the genre of memoir/autobiography towards the genre of memorial book.