Ladino-English, English-Ladino Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary (Judeo-Spanish)

Ladino-English, English-Ladino Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary (Judeo-Spanish)
Author: Elli Kohen
Publisher: Hippocrene Concise Dictionary
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2000
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780781806589

This unique book is the first Ladino dictionary for English speakers! Ladino, also known as Judeo-Spanish or Judezmo, was the language spoken by the Sephardic Jews who settled in the Ottoman Empire after their expulsion from Spain in the 15th century. Definitions include word origins, the cultural context of expressions, and usage, making the book an invaluable reference tool for anyone interested in Romance and Oriental languages and/or Jewish culture.

Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present

Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present
Author: Benjamin Hary
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2018-11-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 150150455X

This book offers sociological and structural descriptions of language varieties used in over 2 dozen Jewish communities around the world, along with synthesizing and theoretical chapters. Language descriptions focus on historical development, contemporary use, regional and social variation, structural features, and Hebrew/Aramaic loanwords. The book covers commonly researched language varieties, like Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, and Judeo-Arabic, as well as less commonly researched ones, like Judeo-Tat, Jewish Swedish, and Hebraized Amharic in Israel today.

Buen Shabat, Shabbat Shalom

Buen Shabat, Shabbat Shalom
Author: Sarah Aroeste
Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing (R)
Total Pages: 12
Release: 2020
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1541542460

Learn Ladino words and celebrate Shabbat.

Judeo-Spanish and the Making of a Community

Judeo-Spanish and the Making of a Community
Author: Bryan Kirschen
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2015-09-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1443881589

Judeo-Spanish and the Making of a Community brings together scholars and activists from around the world, all of whom have participated in and presented original research at the annual ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Symposia. This collection addresses a number of linguistic, historical, and cultural matters pertinent to the Sephardim in different lands from the fifteenth century to the present day. Essays in this volume reveal how Sephardim from various parts of the world – Turkey, the Balkans, Morocco, and the United States – culturally and linguistically position themselves among each other, among other Jews, and among their non-Jewish co-regionalists. Contributors explore how the rich history of the Sephardim has allowed for the development, maintenance, endangerment, and even revitalization of the Judeo-Spanish language(s).

Sephardic Jews and the Spanish Language

Sephardic Jews and the Spanish Language
Author: Ángel Pulido Fernández
Publisher:
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2016-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780997825404

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

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies
Author: Martin Goodman
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks Online
Total Pages: 1060
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780199280322

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies reflects the current state of scholarship in the field as analyzed by an international team of experts in the different and varied areas represented within contemporary Jewish Studies. Unlike recent attempts to encapsulate the current state of Jewish Studies, the Oxford Handbook is more than a mere compendium of agreed facts; rather, it is an exhaustive survey of current interests and directions in the field.

Sephardi Jewry

Sephardi Jewry
Author: Esther Benbassa
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2000-04-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520218222

"Modified and updated version of a book that first appeared in Paris in 1993 under the title Juifs des Balkans ... (Editions La Decouverte)"--Acknowledgments, p. [xi].

The Memory Work of Jewish Spain

The Memory Work of Jewish Spain
Author: Daniela Flesler
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2020-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253050146

The 2015 law granting Spanish nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary Spain, the "re-discovery" of its Jewish heritage. In The Memory Work of Jewish Spain, Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa examine the implications of reclaiming this memory through the analysis of a comprehensive range of emerging cultural practices, political initiatives and institutions in the context of the long history of Spain's ambivalence towards its Jewish past. Through oral interviews, analyses of museums, newly reconfigured "Jewish quarters," excavated Jewish sites, popular festivals, tourist brochures, literature and art, The Memory Work of Jewish Spain explores what happens when these initiatives are implemented at the local level in cities and towns throughout Spain, and how they affect Spain's present.

The Beginnings of Ladino Literature

The Beginnings of Ladino Literature
Author: Olga Borovaya
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2017-03-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253025842

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.