"This poignant and richly textured memoir was originally written in Judeo-Spanish--the language of the Jews of the Ottoman Empire and of Marcel Cohen's own childhood--and later translated by the author into French. The book (which appears here both in English and in the Ladino original) is, writes Cohen, "more or less what my mind retains of the five centuries that my ancestors spent in Turkey."--from cover.

Includes glossary.