Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Dedication V
3. Editors’ Foreword VII
4. Contents V
5. Acknowledgements
6. The Contributors and Summaries of their Essays XV
7. Section I: Rabbinical Literature in Yiddish
8. On the Corpus of Yiddish Court Testimonies in the Responsa Literature and Its Reliability as Specimens of Spoken Language 1
9. Jewish Women: Instructions for Use. Slonik’s Seder Miṣwot Našim from Yiddish to Judeo-Italian 21
10. In a Double Language: The World of Texts and the World of Readers in Hebrew and Yiddish in the Writings of Rabbi Shimon Frankfurt of Amsterdam 49
11. Languages of Virtue and the Virtues of Language 67
12. Morose News for a Mundane World. Towards an Ultra-Orthodox Öffentlichkeit in Hungary: Akiva Yosef Schlesinger and His Yiddish ‘Ammud ha-Yir’a, 1866−1867 105
13. Section II: Rabbinical Literature in Ladino
14. Judezmo Passages in the Ottoman Rabbinic Responsa of Samuel de Medina: Testing the Verbatim Transmission Hypothesis 131
15. On One Halakhic Issue in Meza de el alma 193
16. The Power of Imagination. Miracles versus Rationality in the Midrashim in Ya‘aqov Chuli’s Me-‘am Lo‘ez 207
17. Musar Literature in Ladino 223
18. Judeo-Spanish and the Synagogue in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire 249
19. Sephardic Rabbinical Elite’s Involvement in Business and Its Effects on Their Weltanschauung and Theology: Three Case Studies 281
20. Intertextualities in “La Ketubá de la Ley”: A Judeo-Spanish Paraliturgical copla for Shavuot 305
21. Index of Primary Sources 349
22. Index of Names 353
23. Index of Subjects 359