Modern Ladino Culture

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Olga Borovaya explores the emergence and expansion of print culture inLadino (Judeo-Spanish), the mother tongue of the Sephardic Jews of the OttomanEmpire, in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. She provides thefirst comprehensive study of the three major forms of Ladino literary production --the press, belles lettres, and theater -- as a single cultural phenomenon. Theproduct of meticulous research and innovative methodology, Modern Ladino Cultureoffers a new perspective on the history of the Ladino press, a novel approach to thestudy 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 andpoliticization.