Olga Borovaya
Biographic Data
| ID | 695516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olga Borovaya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olga |
| FAMILY NAME | Borovaya |
| SIGNATURE | BOROVAYA O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The gabela crisis in Izmir in 1846–1847
The first Ladino travelogue
In 1566–67, a renowned Sephardi rabbi of Salonica, Moses Almosnino, produced a multi-part vernacular work, a Romanized and abridged adaptation of which was published in Madrid in 1638 under the title Extremos y grandezas de Constantinopla. Since that moment, Almosnino’s multi-part and multi-genre work, eventually published in full as Crónica de los reyes otomanos, has been known as a travelogue. The third part of the full version in particular ha…
Moses Almosnino's epistles
It is commonly believed that Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) literature emerged in the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth century when the Sephardi vernacular became “independent” of Castilian. Without discussing the linguistic validity of the latter claim, I will show not only that Ottoman Sephardim already had a literature of their own in the sixteenth century, but that contacts with Peninsular culture and the needs of Iberian exiles brought a new literar…
Modern Ladino Culture
The literary culture of the Ottoman Empire's Sephardic Jews
The Emergence of the Ladino Press
This article discusses the emergence of the first Ladino periodical in the Ottoman Empire, Sha'arei Mizrach (Gates of the Orient), which came out in Izmir in 1845-1846. Based on the analysis of this newspaper and the contemporaneous European Jewish press, the essay clarifies the common misconception about the name and the background of the periodical's editor, and claims that it was published by a Jew of Italian extraction and a resident of Izmir…
New Forms of Ladino Cultural Production in the Late Ottoman Period
The reforms in the Ottoman Empire aiming at the modernization of the state (1839–76) and the arrival of the schools of the Alliance Israélite Universelle as of the 1860s led to significant changes in the life of the Ottoman Sephardi community. As a result of westernization, the last third of the nineteenth century witnessed the emergence of new forms of cultural production: press, belles lettres, and theater. They had no counterparts in previous …
The Serialized Novel as Rewriting
The Serialized Novel as Rewriting
New Forms of Ladino Cultural Production in the Late Ottoman Period
The reforms in the Ottoman Empire aiming at the modernization of the state (1839–76) and the arrival of the schools of the Alliance Israélite Universelle as of the 1860s led to significant changes in the life of the Ottoman Sephardi community. As a result of westernization, the last third of the nineteenth century witnessed the emergence of new forms of cultural production: press, belles lettres, and theater. They had no counterparts in previous …
The Emergence of the Ladino Press
This article discusses the emergence of the first Ladino periodical in the Ottoman Empire, Sha'arei Mizrach (Gates of the Orient), which came out in Izmir in 1845-1846. Based on the analysis of this newspaper and the contemporaneous European Jewish press, the essay clarifies the common misconception about the name and the background of the periodical's editor, and claims that it was published by a Jew of Italian extraction and a resident of Izmir…
Modern Ladino Culture
The literary culture of the Ottoman Empire's Sephardic Jews
Moses Almosnino's epistles
It is commonly believed that Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) literature emerged in the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth century when the Sephardi vernacular became “independent” of Castilian. Without discussing the linguistic validity of the latter claim, I will show not only that Ottoman Sephardim already had a literature of their own in the sixteenth century, but that contacts with Peninsular culture and the needs of Iberian exiles brought a new literar…
The first Ladino travelogue
In 1566–67, a renowned Sephardi rabbi of Salonica, Moses Almosnino, produced a multi-part vernacular work, a Romanized and abridged adaptation of which was published in Madrid in 1638 under the title Extremos y grandezas de Constantinopla. Since that moment, Almosnino’s multi-part and multi-genre work, eventually published in full as Crónica de los reyes otomanos, has been known as a travelogue. The third part of the full version in particular ha…
The gabela crisis in Izmir in 1846–1847
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