I’m part of a huge team of freelance translators working on this 10-volume anthology of Jewish cultural and historical texts spanning 3,000 years. Since 2019, I’ve been their main Ladino-to-English translator and have also been hired to translate medieval and early modern literary, religious, scientific, and historical documents for them from Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish. My translations are in volume 5 and the forthcoming volume 4.

PRAISE FOR VOLUME 5:

“A rich and varied gateway into the primary source material of early modern Jewish history that is very strong on geographical diversity. A magnificent achievement.”—Adam Sutcliffe, King’s College London

“A remarkable success. There is no real equivalent, or comparable, volume. A perfect tool for use in university courses in relevant fields of Jewish social history and language studies.”—Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study

BLURB:

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 5, covering the early modern period (1500–1750), presents a variety of Jewish texts to demonstrate the diversity of Jewish culture and life. These texts originate from Eastern and Western Europe, the Americas, the Ottoman Empire, North Africa, Kurdistan, Persia, Yemen, India—in short, a worldwide diaspora. They embrace historical writing and religious scholarship, liturgical expression and economic records, ethics and personal devotion, correspondence and communal regulations, art and music, architecture and poetry. The simultaneous centrifugal and centripetal character of Jewish communities during this era illustrates the distinctiveness of the early modern period in Jewish history and informs developments in world history at large. Including texts written by women, a robust collection of images, and extensive material not previously accessible to English-language readers, this volume is rich, deep, and enlightening.