Throughout the world, only about 60,000 people speak Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish. But the historic language of Sephardic Jewry is enjoying a bit of a renaissance. And what is believed to be the only ...

A sold-out crowd packed the house at the Center for Jewish History — and even filled an overflow room viewing the proceedings on screen — at the third annual Ladino Day in New York, home to the ...

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Amid the eruption of antisemitism worldwide, Nani Vazana, an accomplished Israeli singer, composer, trombonist, and pianist based in the Netherlands, sings in the Jewish language Ladino, winning the ...

Scholars and Ladino speakers agree that he single-handedly revived the language at a time when it was on the decline and Sephardi culture had lost relevance. Moshe Shaul, the man who gave Ladino a new ...

Devin Naar, a University of Washington assistant professor in Jewish studies, is creating the first digitized library of Ladino source materials. NEW YORK (JTA) — Isaac Azose knew he had a treasure in ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Isaac Azose knew he had a treasure in his hands — a nearly century-old booklet for Ladino-speaking Jews immigrating to the United States that featured English, Ladino and Yiddish ...

A housewife by day and actress by night, Forti Barokas is one of a few people trying to revive an endangered language, Ladino, spoken mostly by Turkiye’s Jewish community. Barokas is among ...

ISTANBUL (JTA) — 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. A desirable situation for any ...