Modern Ladino Culture: Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman EmpireOlga Borovaya explores the emergence and expansion of print culture in Ladino (Judeo Spanish), the mother tongue of the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire, in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. She provides the first comprehensive study of the three major forms of Ladino literary production the press, belles lettres, and theater as a single cultural phenomenon. The product of meticulous research and innovative methodology, Modern