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Haleṿi Saʻadi ben Betsalel |
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Titolo |
A Jewish voice from Ottoman Salonica [[electronic resource] ] : the Ladino memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi ; edited and with an introduction by Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein ; translation, transliteration, and glossary by Isaac Jerusalmi |
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Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, c2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (434 p.) |
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Collana |
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Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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RodrigueAron |
SteinSarah Abrevaya |
JerusalmiIsaac <1928-2018.> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jewish publishers - Greece - Thessalonik |
Jewish journalists - Greece - Thessalonik |
Sephardim - Greece - Thessalonik - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors’ Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Note on Currencies, Weights, and Measures -- Note on Sigla Used in the Ladino Romanized Text and English Translation -- Editors’ Introduction -- English Translation -- Romanized Transliteration -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Consulted -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book presents for the first time the complete text of the earliest known Ladino-language memoir, transliterated from the original script, translated into English, and introduced and explicated by the editors. The memoirist, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi (1820–1903), wrote about Ottoman Jews' daily life at a time when the finely wrought fabric of Ottoman society was just beginning to unravel. His vivid portrayal of life in Salonica, a major port in the Ottoman Levant with a majority Jewish population, thus provides a unique window into a way of life before it disappeared as a result of profound political and social changes and the World Wars. Sa'adi was a prominent journalist and |
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publisher, one of the most significant creators of modern Sephardic print culture. He was also a rebel who accused the Jewish leadership of Salonica of being corrupt, abusive, and fanatical; that leadership, in turn, excommunicated him from the Jewish community. The experience of excommunication pervades Sa'adi's memoir, which documents a world that its author was himself actively involved in changing. |
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