Title: A Jewish voice from Ottoman Salonica
Description: This book presents for the first time the complete text of the earliest known Ladino-language memoir, transliterated from the original script, translated into English, and introduced and explicated by the editors. The memoirist, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi (1820-1903), wrote about Ottoman Jews' daily life at a time when the finely wrought fabric of Ottoman society was just beginning to unravel. His vivid portrayal of life in Salonica, a major port in the Ottoman Levant with a majority Jewish population, thus provides a unique window into a way of life before it disappeared as a result of profound p.
Subjects: Jewish publishers, Sephardim, Biography, Jewish journalists, History, Jews, greece, Jews, history, Greece, biography, Journalists, biography, Ladino literature
Places: Thessalonikē, Greece
People: Saʻadi ben Betsalel Haleṿi
Time periods: 19th century