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Author Lehmann, Matthias B., 1970-

Title Ladino rabbinic literature and Ottoman Sephardic culture / Matthias B. Lehmann.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : map, facsimiles.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Jewish literature and culture
Jewish literature and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index.
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.
Summary Explores tradition and modernization among Sephardic communities in the Ottoman Empire through the lens of rabbinic literature written in Ladino.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details 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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Sephardim -- Middle East -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Sephardim.
Middle East.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Rabbinical literature -- Middle East -- History and criticism.
Rabbinical literature.
Ladino literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Ladino literature.
Ladino literature -- Middle East -- History and criticism.
Ethics in rabbinical literature.
Ethics in rabbinical literature.
Sephardim -- Middle East -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Lehmann, Matthias B., 1970- Ladino rabbinic literature and Ottoman Sephardic culture. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2005 0253346304 (DLC) 2005004206 (OCoLC)57670056
ISBN 0253111625 (electronic book)
9780253111623 (electronic book)
0253346304 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780253346308 (cloth ; alkaline paper)