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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 589

Ladino

Participants in Hebrew University's summer Ladino intensive program tour a Sephardic synagogue in Jerusalem's Old City, in an undated photo. (courtesy Hebrew University)
September 25, 2024, 6:34 am
Haberes buenos! Hebrew U initiates first Ladino intensive language program
Inaugural summer session attracted a diverse group of students, who took a deep dive into the living tradition of Judeo-Spanish and encountered native speakers
By Gavriel Fiske
Cover art from Nani Vazana's most recent album, 'Ke Haber.' (Courtesy)
October 8, 2023, 11:39 am
This Israel-born musician is spearheading a Ladino revival, from Taiwan to Toronto
Taking her show on the road, singer and trombonist Nani Vazana brings a lost language and culture to audiences familiar with it and to newcomers alike
By Martin Rosenberg
From left to right: Shaqed Druyan, Edmar Colon, and Tutti Druyan photographed for their album 'Kantika.' (Courtesy)
April 1, 2023, 5:00 am
With Ladino compilation, vocalist gets in tune with her family’s fading history
Israeli-American Tutti Druyan hopes release of song collection ‘Kantika’ revives interest in the endangered Judeo-Spanish language once spoken by her ancestors
By Penny Schwartz
Israel Ogalbo and Mali Levi in 'The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem from Yes Studios (Courtesy Nati Levi)
May 26, 2022, 7:49 am
‘Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’ joins short list of TV and movie shows featuring Ladino
The language was spoken by Jewish communities in the Ottoman Empire and North Africa who had fled the Spanish Inquisition; today, their descendants are seeking to reclaim it
By Gabe Friedman
Angelina Muñiz Huberman is one of a few Jews in the prestigious Mexican Academy of Language. (Courtesy of Huberman/ via JTA)
December 26, 2021, 4:06 am
Lauded Mexican writer’s novels explore her Sephardic history and crypto-Judaism
Told by her mother that the family were secret Jews, Angelina Muñiz-Huberman often writes about hidden identity, Iberian Jewry, and Jewish mysticism
By Alan Grabinsky
(Wikimedia Commons; collage by Grace Yagel/ via JTA)
October 15, 2021, 11:44 pm
Oxford courses on 12 rare Jewish languages aim to keep heritages alive
The classes, which began this week, run for an hour a week online and are free for all students
By Michelle Krasovitski
Noam Vazana wrote her upcoming album 'Andalusian Brew' in Ladino. (Asaf Lewkowitz/via JTA)
September 24, 2018, 3:28 am
An Israeli singer in Amsterdam creates the world’s first Ladino pop album
Noam Vazana traces the would-be evolution of a dying Jewish-Sephardic language and culture as she imagines what it would be like if the musical tradition never stopped
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative copy of Şalom newspaper from 1970, published in Ladino, on display at the Jewish Museum of Turkey in Istanbul. (Larry Luxner/Times of Israel)
February 21, 2018, 7:26 pm
Spain helps keep alive archaic language of Sephardic Jews
Ladino getting boost from Royal Academy to nurture 500-year-old tongue which UNESCO defines as ‘severely endangered’
By CRISTINA FUENTES-CANTILLANA
Study for 1917 Fire —Salonika” (2016) by Harry I. Naar (Courtesy of Naar via JTA)
August 18, 2017, 11:17 pm
A century ago, Jewish Salonica burned
The home to the largest and most dynamic Ladino-speaking Sephardi Jewish community in the world was rebuilt, only to be destroyed anew
By Devin E. Naar
The October 13, 2015 launch of the Knesset Caucus for the Reconnection with the Descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities. (Jeffrey P Worthington)
August 1, 2017, 1:17 pm
Spain announces bid to preserve the Judeo-Spanish language — in Israel
Spanish Royal Academy to found a special Israeli center for Ladino, still spoken by some 525 years after the expulsion of the country’s Jews
By Sue Surkes
The design of the planned Thessaloniki Holocaust Memorial Museum (Courtesy/Jewish Community of Thessaloniki)
June 17, 2017, 7:53 am
Thessaloniki’s new Holocaust museum a sign of a city finally embracing its Jewish past
Once called the Flower of the Balkans, Greek city to begin construction of a fitting memorial 74 years after Nazis destroyed the great Sephardic community
By Gavin Rabinowitz
A view of the interior of the Historic Synagogue Justo Sierra 71 or Synaguoge Nidjei Israel in Mexico City seen in March 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)
June 4, 2017, 4:28 pm
Sephardic Jews to convene at global summit in Mexico
With representatives from over 20 countries, biennial conference will highlight emergence of Jewish institutional life
By JTA
Hank Azaria plays a baseball announcer in the IFC series 'Brockmire.' (Erica Doss/IFC/via JTA)
April 17, 2017, 9:46 am
Hank Azaria opens up about speaking Ladino and his latest TV role
Now in a popular cable series, the man of many voices says he feels ‘most at home with Jewish characters’
By Curt Schleier
Devin Naar says Ladino connects Jews with Latinos and Muslims, two communities he considers marginalized in Trump’s America. (Meryl Schenker Photography/The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at Washington University/via JTA)
March 18, 2017, 11:53 am
Sephardi studies scholar sees preserving Ladino as ‘act of resistance’ against Trump
The dwindling language’s roots in Spanish and Arabic speak to the perceived challenges facing those communities in post-Trump America, says Prof. Devin Naar
By Josefin Dolsten
Miriam Peretz and Eliyahu Sills, performing 'Madre: the Ladino Project.' (Courtesy)
January 15, 2017, 9:58 pm
Ladino groove: Two moms channel ‘herstory’ through song and dance
In their latest collaboration, Miriam Peretz and Rachel Valfer perform a rich fusion of feminine folk music
By Lisa Klug
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