| Description |
1 online resource (434 pages) |
| Contents |
Editors' Acknowledgments; Note on Translation and Transliteration; Note on Currencies, Weights, and Measures; Note on Sigla Used in the Ladino Romanized Textand English Translation; Editors' Introduction; The Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi; English Translation; Romanized Transliteration; Notes; Glossary; Works Consulted; Index |
| Summary |
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 long-ascendant 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 p |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Haleṿi, Saʻadi ben Betsalel.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jerusalmi, Isaac, 1928-
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Stein, Sarah.
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| ISBN |
080478177X |
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9780804781770 |
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