The American Ladino League, which describes itself as a “new hub for Ladino language learning and community,” is a creative and multi-layered response to the growing interest in learning Ladino — and ...

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MADRID (AP) — A language still spoken by the descendants of Jews expelled from Spain 500 years ago is getting a helping hand from the Spanish Royal Academy to keep it alive. Ladino, a language taken ...

Sarah Aroeste went to school to study classical opera, and for one summer in the late 1990s, she trained in Israel, where her coach was a Ladino music scholar. Aroeste knew some Ladino folk songs ...

Tufts' first Sephardic Festival brought scholars and activists Matilda Ko?©n-Sarano and Aharon Cohen to campus last Thursday. The two personalities - who also happen to be married - celebrated the ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (RNS) — When Flory Jagoda, the superstar of Ladino music, died in 2021, it was a wakeup call for Vladimir Mickovic. Mickovic, a Bosnian musician from Mostar, realized that ...

Ladino singer/songwriter Sarah Aroeste and chef/teacher Susan Barocas have teamed up for a unique project designed to keep Sephardic traditions alive. “’Savor’ is a multisensory conversation between ...

(JTA) — “The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem” has made headlines as one of the Israeli TV industry’s most elaborate and expensive productions ever. The series, which follows a family of Spanish Sephardic ...

Moris Albahari, one of the last speakers of the Ladino language in Bosnia and a guardian of the Jewish tradition, passed away in Sarajevo at the age of 93, N1 TV reported. According to BBC reportage ...

Sarah Aroeste will perform at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills as part of her Sounds of the Sephardic Sea program on March 19. The singer from New Jersey has four albums under her ...

IZMIR, Turkey (JTA) — Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has been a popular tourist destination for both Jewish travelers and others interested in Jewish history. The Nazis left many of city’s ...