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

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Superior document:Jewish literature and culture
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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Jewish literature and culture.
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Physical Description:viii, 264 p. :; map, facsims.
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Table of 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.