Sephardic Jews and the Spanish language
By: Ángel Pulido ; translated by Steven Capsuto
Contributors: Capsuto, Steven, translator
Series: Between Wanderings -- 1
Publisher: Books & Translation Services
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780997825404
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Ladino language; Spanish language; Dialects; Judeo-Spanish; Jews
Work titles: Israelitas españoles y el idioma castellano
Description: "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.
Notes: With letters and photos from Jews in early-1900s Turkey, Morocco, Palestine, Austria and Romania.

This book was originally published in Madrid in 1904 in a mixture of Ladino and modern Spanish by Sucesores de Rivadeneyra under the title Los israelitas españoles y el idioma castellano.

Includes bibliographical references and index.