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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Charles G.HäberlSergeyLoesovNisane: The Life of a Mesopotamian Peasanthttp://syriaca.org/cbss/9MUDRPFBhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/9MUDRPFBhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/9MUDRPFBJournal of Semitic Studies66:22021557-618Nisane Ergün was born in 1933 in Beqŭsyone (Turk. Alagöz). She is a native and fluent speaker of Ṭuroyo, a contemporary form of Eastern Aramaic. Although never formally educated, she is a gifted storyteller. Throughout her entire life, she has been engaged in subsistence farming and animal husbandry, in much the same manner as her Kurdish neighbours and other rural populations throughout northern Mesopotamia. Her life story, here related in her own words, is thus an exercise in narrating history ‘from below’. She is an eyewitness to various dramatic periods in the recent history of Ṭur Abdin.
Häberl, Charles G., and Sergey Loesov. “Nisane: The Life of a Mesopotamian Peasant.” Journal of Semitic Studies 66:2 (2021): 557–618.
Charles G. Häberl and Sergey Loesov, Nisane: The Life of a Mesopotamian Peasant,Journal of Semitic Studies 66:2 (2021): 557–618.JacobitesModern SyriacSyriac languageTur AbdinTuroyoXIX-XXI CEXXI CEcountrysidefolkloreprimary sources [Syriac] + English translationwomen