Sephardic Jews and the Spanish Language
Pulido Fernandez, Angel
ISBN 10: 0997825405 ISBN 13: 9780997825404
Editorial: Steven Capsuto - Books and Trans, 2016
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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 (the exiles’ descendants) and to let them know they could return to Spain if they wished. 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, when many young Sephardim were starting to reject the Spanish language that their ancestors had passed down from generation to generation since 1492.The senator’s writings, lectures and organizing earned him the nickname “the Apostle of the Sephardic Jews.” His books on this topic continue to be cited frequently by scholars of Sephardic history.This annotated translation is the first book in the Between Wanderings collection.
Acerca del autor: Ángel Pulido Fernández (1852–1932), Spain’s “Apostle of the Sephardic Jews,” was an eminent physician, senator, forensic anthropologist, journalist and author. He championed causes ranging from human rights to public health, from social justice to religious tolerance, and from child safety to services for the blind. Besides cofounding the Madrid Press Association, he was, at various times, head of the Madrid School of Midwifery, secretary of Madrid’s Anthropology Museum, chairman of the Madrid Board of Physicians, president of the Spanish Child Protection Council, and director of Spain’s Department of Health. From the 1900s to 1920s, this Christian member of Parliament successfully campaigned for Spain to reestablish ties with its exiled Jewish offspring: the Sephardic Jews, whose ancestors the country had banished four centuries earlier. He lectured extensively on the topic and helped to create organizations to promote friendship with Sephardim and make it easier for Jews to immigrate to Spain. In addition to “Sephardic Jews and the Spanish Language” (first published in 1904), his Sephardic-themed volumes include “Españoles sin patria y la raza sefardí” (Spaniards without a country and the Sephardic race, 1905) and “Mica: homenaje a la mujer hebrea” (Mica: An homage to Jewish women, 1923).
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Título: Sephardic Jews and the Spanish Language
Editorial: Steven Capsuto - Books and Trans
Año de publicación: 2016
Encuadernación: paperback
Condición: Good