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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lehmann, Matthias B., 1970-

Series:

Jewish literature and culture.

Jewish literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sephardim--Middle East--Intellectual life--19th century.

Sephardim.

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.

Sephardim--Middle East--Social conditions--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

1-282-07262-5

9786612072628

0-253-11162-5

OCLC:

476016259