[PDF] Beginners Ladino eBook

Author : Alla Markova
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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This title contains a book and 2 audio CDs. Ladino, also known as Judeo-Spanish, is the language of the Sephardic Jews. During the middle ages, the Jews who lived in the Iberian Peninsula spoke and wrote in the Romance languages of the host culture. They developed a unified dialect that was distinct from Castilian Spanish. After the expulsion of the Jews in 1492, this language became part of the 'Iberian Heritage' of the Sephardim throughout the world. Today, although the language is in danger of extinction, it is experiencing a revival.

Author : Alla Markova
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780781813723

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The ideal guide for anyone who wants to learn the language of the Sephardic (Iberian) Jews. This book's 13 lessons, designed with the beginning student in mind, are ideal for both classroom use and self-study. Each lesson teaches basic conversation through dialogues on everyday topics like greetings, family, weather, shopping, and holidays.

Author : Olga Borovaya
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0253005566

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Olga Borovaya explores the emergence and expansion of print culture in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), the mother tongue of the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire, in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. She provides the first comprehensive study of the three major forms of Ladino literary production—the press, belles lettres, and theater—as a single cultural phenomenon. The product of meticulous research and innovative methodology, Modern Ladino Culture offers a new perspective on the history of the Ladino press, a novel approach to the study of belles lettres in Ladino and their relationship to their European sources, and a fine-grained critique of Sephardic plays as venues for moral education and politicization.

Author : Aron Rodrigue
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 080478177X

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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.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004359540

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This handbook, the first of its kind, includes descriptions of the ancient and modern Jewish languages other than Hebrew, including historical and linguistic overviews, numerous text samples, and comprehensive bibliographies.

Author : Doreen Carvajal
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594631522

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The unexpected and moving story of an American journalist who works to uncover her family’s long-buried Jewish ancestry in Spain. Raised a Catholic in California, New York Times journalist Doreen Carvajal is shocked when she discovers that her background may actually be connected to conversos from Inquisition-era Spain: Jews who were forced to renounce their faith and convert to Christianity or face torture and death. With vivid childhood memories of Sunday sermons, catechism, and the rosary, Carvajal travels to the centuries-old Andalucian town of Arcos de la Frontera, to investigate her lineage and recover her family’s original religious heritage. In Arcos, Carvajal comes to realize that fear remains a legacy of the Inquisition along with the cryptic messages left by its victims. Back at her childhood home in California, she uncovers papers documenting a family of Carvajals who were burned at the stake in the 16th-century territory of Mexico. Could the author’s family history be linked to the hidden history of Arcos? And could the unfortunate Carvajals have been her ancestors? As she strives to find proof that her family had been forced to convert to Christianity six hundred years ago, Carvajal comes to understand that the past flows like a river through time—and that while the truth might be submerged, it is never truly lost.

Author : Ángel Pulido Fernández
Publisher :
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 2016-09-09
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ISBN : 9780997825404

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Classic 1904 book about Sephardic Jews' relationship to Spain and Spanish. Includes letters from Sephardim in Turkey, Morocco, Palestine, Austria and Romania.