Modern Ladino Culture
Olga Borovaya
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Description for Modern Ladino Culture
Hardcover. Explores the literary culture of the Ottoman Empire's Sephardic Jews Series: Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 175 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602.
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 their relationship to their European sources, and ... Read more
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Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Series
Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253356727
SKU
V9780253356727
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About Olga Borovaya
Olga Borovaya is a visiting scholar at Stanford University. She is author of Modernization of a Culture (in Russian).
Reviews for Modern Ladino Culture
Borovaya's meticulously-researched book examines the relationship between linguistic and historical developments as they come into view through these Ladino texts.1.2 2013
Journal of Jewish Languages
Olga Borovaya's brilliant book—the first comprehensive study of modern Ladino print culture—transforms our understanding of the Ottoman Sephardi world in the era of westernisation that preceded its demise. . . [T]his terrific book ... Read more
Journal of Jewish Languages
Olga Borovaya's brilliant book—the first comprehensive study of modern Ladino print culture—transforms our understanding of the Ottoman Sephardi world in the era of westernisation that preceded its demise. . . [T]his terrific book ... Read more