Ladino rabbinic literature and Ottoman Sephardic culture:
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Main Author: Lehmann, Matthias B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press c2005
Series:Jewish literature and culture
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-255) and index
Historical background -- Print and the vernacular : the emergence of Ladino reading culture -- The translation and reception of musar -- "Pasar la hora" or "meldar"? forms of sociability -- The construction of the social order -- Three social types : the wealthy, the poor, the learned -- The representation of gender -- Understanding exile, setting boundaries -- The impossible homecoming -- Reincarnation and the discovery of history -- Scientific and rabbinic knowledge and the notion of change
Explores tradition and modernization among Sephardic communities in the Ottoman Empire through the lens of rabbinic literature written in Ladino
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 264 p.)
ISBN:0253111625
9780253111623

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