Ladino
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.
Turkish Paper Struggles To Save Ladino Language
Every time she prepares her newspaper for print, Karen Sarhon has her pick from dozens of submissions she receives daily from writers around the world.
When Jews — and Everyone Else — Learned How To Have Fun
Why doesn’t any Jewish language have a word for ‘fun’? It’s not because the tribe doesn’t know how to amuse itself, Philologos explains.
Tell It on the Mountain: A Shavuot Holiday Concert
The festival of Shavuot begins tonight. You all know what that means: time for a little holiday music. Herewith a mix of Peter Paul & Mary, Shlomo Carlebach, Shoshana Damari, Bob Dylan, some Ladino sacred cancon, some 1950s doo-wop and lots more, including a snippet of Mel Brooks.
Meet America's Internet Champion of Ladino
Some say Ladino, or Judaismo, is on a path to linguistic extinction. But an online community of Ladino speakers is keeping it alive in the digital age.
