In this pathbreaking book, Matthias B. Lehmann explores Ottoman
Sephardic culture in an era of change through a close study of
popularized rabbinic texts written in Ladino, the vernacular
language of the Ottoman Jews. This vernacular literature, standing
at the crossroads of rabbinic elite and popular cultures and of
Hebrew and Ladino discourses, sheds valuable light on the
modernization of Sephardic Jewry in the Eastern Mediterranean in
the 19th century. By helping to form a Ladino reading public and
imparting shape to its values, the authors of this literature
negotiated between perpetuating rabbinic tradition and addressing
the challenges of modernity. The book offers close readings of
works that examine issues such as social inequality, exile and
diaspora, gender, secularization, and the clash between scientific
and rabbinic knowledge. Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman
Sephardic Culture will be welcomed by scholars of Sephardic as well
as European Jewish history, culture, and religion.
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