Ladino
The spinach frittata that connects me to my Sephardic grandmother
The frittata, which appears in my book “The Poetry of Secrets,” is a family favorite—a recipe passed down from my Sephardic grandmother.
Why only Yiddish and Ladino? Oxford wants to teach you Judeo-Tat and Karaim
The elite British university is offering online classes in nearly a dozen rare Jewish languages to students and non-students alike.
For 35 years, this mother-daughter duo has run a radio show on Ladino and Sephardic Jewish culture from Madrid
It has been “a gesture of friendship between Spain, Israel and the Sephardic communities around the world,” according to co-host Viviana Rajel Barn.
Ashkenormativity? What about Israel-Centrism?
How is Yiddish at fault in the loss of Sephardi culture in America when Jewish schools only teach modern Hebrew and Israeli history?
When Sephardic Salonica Burned A Century Ago — Only To Be Destroyed Again
A century ago,a massive fire roared through the Mediterranean port city of Salonica, Greece.
Spain To Create Ladino Academy In Israel To Help Preserve Dying Jewish Language
Dario Villanueva, director of the Spanish Royal Academy, said Ladino is “an extraordinarily important cultural and historical phenomenon.”
Rescue Ladino, The Language Of Sephardic Jews
As Yiddish has had a renaissance, so, too, is Ladino having its moment. But we need to seize the opportunity before it is too late.
Preserving Ladino As ‘Act Of Resistance’ Against Trump
— One-year-old Vidal doesn’t know the significance behind the lullaby his father sings him at bedtime. He knows it helps him fall asleep, but not that the Ladino song is part of an effort to teach him what served as the lingua franca of Sephardi Jews of the Ottoman Empire for over 500 years. And he doesn’t…
Rare Cache of Ladino Documents Tells History of Los Angeles Sephardic Jews
(JTA) — Last year UCLA launched a Jewish history with an ambitious goal — to be “one of the world’s largest collections of Sephardi Jewish life.” Now, the UCLA Sephardic Archive has made its first major acquisition, obtaining what it says is “one of the most significants collections ever assembled” telling the history of Sephardi Jews…
Crossing the Bosphorus: My Great-Grandmother’s Sephardic Memoir
Exactly one hundred years ago, on September 8th, 1916, my great-grandmother Estrella penned the last entry in her French notebook. At the time she was attending an elite preparatory school for Jewish students in Paris. Like hundreds of other Sephardic teenagers from around the Mediterranean, Estrella had been plucked from her tiny Jewish community on the island of Rhodes and taken to France for an intensive four-year training hosted by the Alliance Israélite Universelle. She thus spent the bulk of World War I far from her family, the sprawling Leon-Alhadeff clan who lived in La Juderia, Rhodes’ Jewish quarter.