Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture

Name: Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture
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ISBN: 9780253111623

ISBN-10: 0253111625

ISBN-13: 9780253111623

Edition: N/A

Authors: Matthias B. Lehmann

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In this pathbreaking book, Matthias B. Lehmann explores Ottoman Sephardic culture in an era of change through a close study of popularized rabbinic texts written in Ladino, the vernacular language of the Ottoman Jews. This vernacular literature, standing at the crossroads of rabbinic elite and popular cultures and of Hebrew and Ladino discourses, sheds valuable light on the modernization of Sephardic Jewry in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 19th century. By helping to form a Ladino reading public and imparting shape to its values, the authors of this literature negotiated between perpetuating rabbinic tradition and addressing the challenges of modernity. The book offers close readings of…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/3/2005
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 280
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long
Language: English