On an Eighteenth-Century Sephardic Trade Manual from Constantinople

Binyamin Shilton's Hoshev Mahshavot Translated and Explained
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-68722-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Translating Cultures in the Early Modern World

Through the gate opened by Hoshev Mahshavot, one of the first books written in Ladino on a non-religious subject, this study will take you to the little-known world of the Constantinople Jewish traders of the early eighteenth century, their international networks, the goods that they sold and bought, the language that they used, the way mathematics and trade were taught… What were the sources of inspiration for this manual? What was the state of knowledge of math and the sciences in Europe and the Ottoman Empire? How much interaction was there between authors of similar books in different communities? While addressing these and other questions, you may be surprised to find out, for example, that math could also be taught by means of anecdotes, refrains, poems; or that trade was considered to be a science related to philosophy, and other interesting facts. You will hopefully enjoy this brief excursion to the past.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sabanoglu, Alber

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Unterrichtsmaterialien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Alber Sabanoglu (B.S. Engineering and B.A. History from Brown University, M.A. Mathematics from Tufts University) is Professor of Operations and Finance at IE University, Madrid. His academic interests lie with behavioral decision making and Sephardic and Ottoman History. He published short stories and essays in the USA, Australia, Spain, and Turkey.