Joseph and his Brethren: Three Ladino Versions (Poema de Yosef. Coplas de Yosef ha-Saddiq. Sefer ha-Yasar [Joseph's Tale]
Hardcover
1990 · Culver City, CA
by Lazar, Moshe (ed.)
Culver City, CA: Labyrinthos, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. 1/300. 4to. xx,315pp. Silver-stamped black cloth with silver lettering on spine. Fine copy with three Ladino adaptations of the biblical Joseph narrative. 1) Poema de Yosef: A late fourteenth or early fifteenth-century poetic version of the Joseph tale, composed in Spain and remaining popular in the Ottoman Jewish communities after the 1492 Expulsion of the Jews. 2) Coplas de Yosef ha-Saddiq: composed before 1732 by Abraham Toledo and popularized throughout the Ottoman Empire, this (truncated)