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Ac Jerusalmi (Traduttore), Aron Rodrigue , Sarah Abrevaya Stein , Isa

A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi

Stanford Univ Press (15 gennaio 2012) Collana: Stanford Studies - in Jewish History and Culture,

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Author
Ac Jerusalmi (Traduttore)
Publishers
Stanford Univ Press (15 gennaio 2012) Collana: Stanford Studies, in Jewish History and Culture
Curator
Aron Rodrigue , Sarah Abrevaya Stein , Isa
Keyword
Turchia Turkey Turquie
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
As New
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

8vo, br, ed, 372pp. 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 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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