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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784579503321

Autore

Lehmann Matthias B. <1970->

Titolo

Ladino rabbinic literature and Ottoman Sephardic culture [[electronic resource] /] / Matthias B. Lehmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-07262-5

9786612072628

0-253-11162-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Jewish literature and culture

Disciplina

956.1/004924046

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-255) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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                



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