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Ladino

La America, a Ladino paper from the U.S., published 1911. (Courtesy NIL)
Posted inBay Area

Stanford Ladino scholar keeps grip on fading Ottoman Jewish world

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 24, 2026April 24, 2026

Ladino is a historical language of the Sephardic Jews, an amalgam of 15th-century Spanish and other Romance languages. Traditionally written in Hebrew characters, it is also influenced by Hebrew in […]

Judith Berlowitz is the author of "Home So Far Away," a novel inspired by an ancestor who served as a battlefield nurse in the Spanish Civil War.
Posted inBooks

‘Home So Far Away’: Retired Mills College professor Judith Berlowitz’s novel honors battlefield nurse ancestor

by Dan Pine July 14, 2022July 20, 2022
Poster for "The House on Chelouche Street"
Posted inTV & Film

Liked ‘Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’? Here are 7 other movies and shows that feature Ladino.

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA June 2, 2022June 2, 2022
Angelina Muñiz Huberman is one of a few Jews in the prestigious Mexican Academy of Language.
Posted inBooks

Meet Angelina Muñiz Huberman, a Mexican writer whose novels explore Sephardic history and crypto-Judaism

Alan Grabinsky by Alan Grabinsky and JTA December 27, 2021December 27, 2021
Ilker Kiliç (left) as Mordo and Asude Kalebek as Raşel in "The Club." (Photo/JTA-Netflix)
Posted inTV & Film

Netflix’s ‘The Club’ shatters taboos with rare historical portrait of Turkish Jews

by David I. Klein and JTA November 18, 2021November 18, 2021
"Jew street," as it is known locally, was once a hub for Judeo-Malayalam, the now endangered language spoken by the Jews of India's Cochin region. (Photo/JTA-Christabel Lobo)
Posted inHistory

The fight to save endangered Jewish languages, from Ladino to Judeo-Malayalam

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 22, 2021March 29, 2021
A young Flory Jagoda, the woman who would go on to become the doyenne of Ladino music.
Posted inOpinion

We’re running out of time to preserve endangered Jewish languages. Here’s how we can stop them from being lost forever.

Sarah Bunin Benor by Sarah Bunin Benor and JTA February 9, 2021
Flory Jagoda at the Richmond Folk Festival in 2012. (Screenshot from YouTube)
Posted inMusic

Flory Jagoda, champion of Sephardic music, dies at 97

by Ben Harris and JTA February 2, 2021February 3, 2021
Shira Kammen (Courtesy  Kammen)
Posted inMusic

Centuries-old Sephardic music plus bawdy songs about Virgin Mary in area concerts

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 18, 2019November 20, 2019
"Kanta Judezmo" composer Sascha Jacobsen’s cousins, the Capeloutos, in Rhodes, circa 1906 (Photo/Courtesy Sascha Jacobsen)
Posted inCulture

Ladino is the language, S.F. the setting for world premiere of grand Jewish oratorio

Laura Pall by Laura Paull April 18, 2019April 18, 2019

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