Las endechas judeoespañolas del norte de Marruecos: un análisis semiótico

The aim of this study is to offer a semiotic analysis of the dirges (songs of the dead) that were transmitted orally and intergenerationally among the Sephardic Jewish communities that settled in northern Morocco after their expulsion from Spain in 1492. The method used in the present work is documental and is based on the compilation of dirges made by Manuel Alvar (1969) in the Judeo-Spanish communities of this region in the second half of the 20th century. This study comes to the conclusion that the semiotic content of these texts is significant, because it sheds light on medieval Judeo-Spanish mortuary customs and beliefs, as well as the role that Jewish Sephardic women played as agents of transmission of a lugubrious poetics in the Haketian language, nowadays extinct.