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Ladino rabbinic literature and Ottoman Sephardic culture [electronic resource]

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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

Title Ladino rabbinic literature and Ottoman Sephardic culture [electronic resource] / Matthias B. Lehmann.
Publisher Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Creation Date c2005
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-255) and index.
English
Content 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.
Series Jewish literature and culture
Extent 1 online resource (281 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010709754805171
MARC RECORDS
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