SOURCE AND LINGUISTIC JOURNEY OF A RETRANSLATION INTO JUDEO-SPANISH: THE CASE OF <i>LA ALMA DE HOMBRE</i> (CONSTANTINOPLE, 1855)

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Filiz Subasi D. F., Garcia Arevalo T. M. A.

SEFARAD, vol.81, no.2, pp.477-498, 2021 (AHCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 81 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2021
  • Doi Number: 10.3989/sefarad.021-015
  • Journal Name: SEFARAD
  • Journal Indexes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Periodicals Index Online, ATLA Religion Database, Historical Abstracts, Index Islamicus, Linguistic Bibliography, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Old Testament Abstracts Online, Directory of Open Access Journals, DIALNET
  • Page Numbers: pp.477-498
  • Ankara University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Between the 19th and 20th centuries, the Ottoman Empire was the target of different evangelization strategies carried out by Protestant missionaries from the United States and Great Britain. One of the main ones consisted of launching philanthropic works such as the publication of texts in the various vernacular languages used by the ethnic-religious groups of the empire, including JudeoSpanish. The objective of these pages is to present the study of one of these works, unpublished to date, La alma de hombre (Constantinople, 1855), shedding light on the linguistic journey that it undergoes until it reaches the Sephardic community and the identification of its source.