While there are Sephardic communities around the world, Ladino is considered an endangered language, used mostly by the elderly. Vazana, who currently lives in Amsterdam, was born in Israel to parents ...

Bencoya lamented that he is among the last generation for whom Ladino — the Judeo-Spanish language traditionally spoken by Sephardic Jews, but only spoken by tens of thousands today — was at ...

Ladino is the language of the Sephardic Jews who were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula after 31 March 1492 during the Spanish Inquisition, by the Catholics Monarchs Isabel and Ferdinand.

(JTA) — Flory Jagoda, the Bosnian-born Holocaust survivor who became a champion of Ladino and Sephardic music after immigrating to the United States, has died. Jagoda died Sunday at an assisted ...