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"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

What are the Jewish languages? Some are well known — Hebrew is the language of the Torah and of Israel, and Yiddish was the language of the shtetls and the […]

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
From the cover of “The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate” by Martin Puchner.
Posted inOff the Shelf

Two new books burrow into Yiddish and the ‘language of thieves’

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman January 15, 2021January 15, 2021

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