TY  - BOOK
AU  - Borova�i�a,O.V.
TI  - The beginnings of Ladino literature: Moses Almosnino and his readers 
T2  - Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies
SN  - 9780253025845
AV  - PC4813.5 
U1  - 860.9 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Bloomington and Indianapolis
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Almosnino, Moses ben Baruch,
KW  - Ladino literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Sephardim
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - Spanish & Portuguese
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Jewish
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue: Jewish vernacular culture in fifteenth-century Iberia -- Ladino in the sixteenth century: the emergence of a new vernacular literature -- Almosnino's epistles: a new genre for a new audience -- Almosnino's chronicles: the Ottoman Empire through the eyes of court Jews -- The first Ladino travelogue: Almosnino's treatise on the extremes of Constantinople -- Rabbis and merchants: new readers, new educational projects -- Epilogue: Moses Almosnino, a renaissance man? -- Appendix: The extremes of Constantinople
N2  - "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 the style of contemporary 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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