Modern Ladino culture : press, belles lettres, and theatre in the late Ottoman Empire / Olga Borovaya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borovai︠a︡, O. V. (Olʹga Volʹfovna)

Series:

Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies.

Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Turkey--Intellectual life--19th century.

Jews.

Jews--Turkey--Intellectual life--20th century.

Ladino literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Ladino literature.

Ladino literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Ladino newspapers--Turkey.

Ladino newspapers.

Jewish newspapers--Turkey.

Jewish newspapers.

Jewish theater--Turkey--History.

Jewish theater.

Turkey--Ethnic relations.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Olga Borovaya explores the emergence and expansion of print culture in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), the mother tongue of the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire, in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. She provides the first comprehensive study of the three major forms of Ladino literary production-the press, belles lettres, and theater-as a single cultural phenomenon. The product of meticulous research and innovative methodology, Modern Ladino Culture offers a new perspective on the history of the Ladino press, a novel approach to the study of belles lettres in Ladino and thei

Contents:

Introduction

The press. The emergence of modern cultural production in Ladino: the Sephardi press

The press in Salonica: a case study

Belles lettres. The serialized novel as rewriting

Ladino fiction: case studies

Theater. Sephardi theater: project and practice

Ladino drama: case studies

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613528247

9781280124389

1280124385

9780253005564

0253005566

OCLC:

769266002