LADINO RABBINIC LITERATURE AND OTTOMAN SEPHARDIC CULTURE
Bloomington; Indiana University Press, 2005. Item #34998
Original Cloth. 8vo. VIII, 264 pages. 25 cm. First edition. “Views tradition and modernization among Sephardic communities in the Ottoman Empire through the lens of rabbinic literature written in Ladino. ” - Publishers description. Contents: 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. Subjects: Sephardim - Middle East - Intellectual life - 19th century. Rabbinical literature - Middle East - History and criticism. Ladino literature - 19th century - History and criticism. Ladino literature - Middle East - History and criticism. Ethics in rabbinical literature. Sephardim - Middle East - Social conditions - 19th century. Clean and fresh in great jacket. Near fine. Very good condition. (SEF-51-25).
Price: $100.00