Creator Bio
Rosa Gabbay
ca. 1850–ca. 1936
Rosa Gabbay was the daughter of Ezekiel Gabbay, founder of the Ladino newpaper El jurnal israelit and the personal banker of the Sultan Mahmud II. Rosa Gabbay’s Ladino-language etiquette book reflects on courtesy and critiques the traditional role of Jewish girls, stressing the importance of modern education, and showing Western influences.
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Courtesy, or Rules of Comportment
As I write these words it occurs to me that, since it is the woman who runs the household, she must have wide knowledge and be a good manager. For many centuries our nation ignored women’s education…
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Haskalah and Pedagogy, 1750–1880
The first maskilim ransacked both Jewish and European tradition to find new platforms for creating and transmitting the Jewish cultural ideals they conceived. Jews enlisted diverse literary genres to call for social, educational, and economic change.