Naar, a professor of Sephardic studies at the University of Washington, is deeply passionate about preserving Ladino — which is also known as Judeo-Spanish, Judezmo or Judio — the language his ...

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 ...

Stein, the distinguished professor of history and the Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at University of California, Los Angeles, shared the detail in her book, “Family Papers: A ...

Sephardic Center of Istanbul's books and CDs are now being sold on this website where also various pieces of information and events will be broadcasted. Subscribing to El Amaneser, the Ladino magazine ...

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 ...

but also from Ladino language lovers from other countries. The event kicked off with speeches given by Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Cultural Research Center Coordinator and Editor of Salom Newspaper’s El ...

(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 ...