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A Jewish voice from Ottoman Salonica [Elektronische Ressource] : the Ladino memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi / ed. and with an introd. by Aron Rodrigue ... ; translation, transliteration, and glossary by Isaac Jerusalmi

Haleṿi, Saʿadi ben Betsalel,i1820-1903 ; Rodrigue, Aron,i1957- [Hrsg.] ; Stein, Sarah Abrevaya [Hrsg.] ; Yerûšalmî, Yiṣhaq,i1928-2018 [Übers.]

Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012

434 p.

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C

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978-0-8047-8694-2

AP 23100 NY 4800 AP 23100 NY 4800

 

f Online-Publikation  Haleṿi, Saʿadi ben Betsalel, 1820-1903  f Autobiographie  Osmanisches Reich  Thessaloniki  Juden  Jüdische Gemeinde  Judenspanisch  Geschichte 1820-1890 

 

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978-0-8047-8177-0

 

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 profo...