Rabbinical Literature in Yiddish and Ladino
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Edited by:
Katja Šmid
About this book
The volume offers a broad introduction to the rabbinical literature written in the two major traditional Jewish languages of Europe: Yiddish, the language which arose in the Middle Ages amongst the Jews of the German lands and was brought to many other lands, and Ladino (or Judezmo or Judeo-Spanish), the language which originated amongst the Jews of medieval Iberia and after their expulsions was carried to many other places.
The scope is wide-ranging. Some of the contributions highlight the lives and work of outstanding rabbinical figures who wrote in Yiddish or Ladino, and the crucial role they played in the transmission of rabbinical knowledge among the more popular sectors of their communities, as well as in the shaping of the Yiddish and Ladino reading public. Close attention is paid to long-established genres such as the highly-popular Biblical commentaries, as exemplified by the Me'am lo'ez in Ladino (1730‒1899); prayer books and liturgical compositions in prose and verse; responsa collections; guides to religious observance; moralistic works; as well as more modern genres having rabbinical content such as the periodical press that appeared from the middle of the nineteenth century, when the Jewish communities of the Diaspora underwent radical cultural, religious, social and political changes
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Topics
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Frontmatter
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Dedication
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Editors’ Foreword
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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The Contributors and Summaries of their Essays
XV - Section I: Rabbinical Literature in Yiddish
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On the Corpus of Yiddish Court Testimonies in the Responsa Literature and Its Reliability as Specimens of Spoken Language
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Jewish Women: Instructions for Use. Slonik’s Seder Miṣwot Našim from Yiddish to Judeo-Italian
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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
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Languages of Virtue and the Virtues of Language
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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
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Judezmo Passages in the Ottoman Rabbinic Responsa of Samuel de Medina: Testing the Verbatim Transmission Hypothesis
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On One Halakhic Issue in Meza de el alma
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The Power of Imagination. Miracles versus Rationality in the Midrashim in Ya‘aqov Chuli’s Me-‘am Lo‘ez
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Musar Literature in Ladino
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Judeo-Spanish and the Synagogue in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
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Sephardic Rabbinical Elite’s Involvement in Business and Its Effects on Their Weltanschauung and Theology: Three Case Studies
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Intertextualities in “La Ketubá de la Ley”: A Judeo-Spanish Paraliturgical copla for Shavuot
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Index of Primary Sources
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Index of Names
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Index of Subjects
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