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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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• Full title: Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica
• Subtitle: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi
• Author: Aron Rodrigue
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 432
• EAN: 9780804771665
• ISBN: 0804771669
• ID: 01208767
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 812 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 162 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. January 2012

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