Regimiento de la Vida: Y, Tratado de Los Suenyos: (Salonika, 1564)

Rabbi and community leader Almosnino's Regimeniento, advice to his nephew, and Tratado, a treatise on dreams, comprise a unique historical record of the ethical and intellectual outlook of 16th-century Sephardim in the Ottoman Empire. Zemke (Spanish, U. of Missouri-Columbia) offers the first modern edition in a Latin-letter transcription of the Rashi-character Spanish text. He includes a introduction, an English translation of the original Hebrew introduction, notes, a bibliography, and indices. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR