Sephardic Jews and the Spanish language

"In 1903, four centuries after Spain expelled the Jews, a Spanish senator launched a campaign to have his country reopen relations with the Sephardic Jews ... To promote the campaign, Senator Ángel Pulido wrote the classic book SEPHARDIC JEWS AND THE SPANISH LANGUAGE, now available in English for the first time. Eager to let Jews speak for themselves, he devoted a third of the book to photos and letters from Sephardim in Turkey, Morocco, Palestine, Austria and Romania, in which they describe their communities, synagogues, schools, families, literature and aspirations. They also wrote to him about Ladino - the Judeo-Spanish language that many of them still used at home and in worship. The book documents Sephardic life at a turning point: the late nineteenth and early twentieth century ... " -- page 4 of cover.

שנה

2016

שפה

English

סדרה

Between Wanderings -- 1

הוצאה

Books & Translation Services

מהדורות

1

עמודים

299

ISBN

9780997825404

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata