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The Beginnings of Ladino Literature: Moses Almosnino and His Readers

The Beginnings of Ladino Literature: Moses Almosnino and His Readers

Borovaya, Olga

Hardcover

Series: Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0253025524
ISBN13: 9780253025524
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Mar 13 2017
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Moses Almosnino (1518-1580), arguably the most famous Ottoman Sephardi writer and the only one who was known in Europe to both Jews and Christians, became renowned for his vernacular books that were admired by Ladino readers across many generations. While Almosnino's works were written in a style similar to contemporaneous Castilian, Olga Borovaya makes a strong argument for including them in the corpus of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) literature. Borovaya suggests that the history of Ladino literature begins at least 200 years earlier than previously believed and that Ladino, like most other languages, had more than one functional style. With careful historical work, Borovaya establishes a new framework for thinking about Ladino language and literature and the early history of European print culture.

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