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Only an estimated 100,000 speak the Judeo-Spanish language known as Ladino, once common among Sephardic Jews throughout the Mediterranean. One millennial songwriter is on a quest to save Ladino to ...
As a pre-teen partisan, he helped liberate Yugoslavia from the Nazis — and used Ladino to get himself out of deadly situations on multiple occasions. (JTA) — Moris Albahari, a Holocaust ...
“Ladino was something of a forbidden language at our home,” Vazana said. To her father, a Fes native, it represented the opposite of fitting into Israeli society, she explained. But hearing ...