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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, Jewish languages, Language & linguistics

Categories:

Print & book culture, Biblical commentary
Printed page of Hebrew text framed by arch with columns of garlands and a border of Hebrew text.
A Manifesto for Turkish Jewish Literature
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Our periodical [Mir’ât] was established to exist in a space of freedom as far away as possible from the recorded language of formality. Deficiencies in style and form will…

Contributor:

Avram Naon

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Language & linguistics, Writing, Jewish identity, Education, Journalism, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Journalism, Firsthand accounts