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.
| ISBN: | 9780804771665 |
| Publication date: | 11th January 2012 |
| Author: | Saadi ben Betsalel Halevi |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 432 pages |
| Series: | STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE |
| Genres: |
Biography: historical, political and military Social and cultural history |
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.
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica features in the following genres: Biography: historical, political and military, Social and cultural history
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica is available in Hardback
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica was written by Saadi ben Betsalel Halevi and published by Stanford University Press
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica has 432 pages
Yes it is part of STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE series