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Why Ladino is having a big moment — both in New York and the rest of the world
Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. This Sunday is Ladino Day ...
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Saving the Ladino language one song at a time
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 ...
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Bosnian Jews mourn Moris Albahari, one of Sarajevo’s last Ladino speakers
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 ...
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An Israeli singer in Amsterdam creates the world’s first Ladino pop album
“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 ...