Olga Borovaya: 2 books
The Beginnings of Ladino Literature
Moses Almosnino and His Readers
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
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 a style...
Modern Ladino Culture
Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Olga Borovaya explores the emergence and expansion of print culture in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), the mother tongue of the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire, in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. She provides the first comprehensive study of the three major forms of Ladino literary...