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Jacob Huli’s Me‘am lo‘ez (From a People of Foreign Tongue)
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The masterpiece of eighteenth-century Ladino literature is the encyclopedic commentary on the Bible, Me‘am lo‘ez (From a People of Foreign Tongue), by Jacob Huli, the first volume of which was…

Contributor:

Jacob Huli

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1730

Subjects:

Print, Bible, Ladino, Jewish languages, Language and linguistics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Biblical Commentary
Printed page of Hebrew text framed by arch with columns of garlands and a border of Hebrew text.
Me‘am lo‘ez (From a People of Foreign Tongue): On Genesis
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The Book of Me‘am lo‘ez is the explication of the entire Hebrew Bible in Ladino, explaining the way of life which a person must lead as the sacred law commanded, and also to know about all that…

Contributor:

Jacob Huli

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1730

Subjects:

Oral Torah, Jewish languages, Ladino, Writing

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Printed page of Hebrew text framed by arch with columns of garlands and a border of Hebrew text.