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Saving the Ladino language one song at a time
Only an estimated 100,000 speak the Judeo-Spanish language known as Ladino, once common among Sephardic Jews throughout the Mediterranean. One millennial songwriter is on a quest to save Ladino to ...
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Turkish newspaper tries to save a dying Jewish language
“In the 1970s, Ladino was truly a dying language, but El Amaneser is among the relatively new initiatives giving Ladino a new lease on life,” said Sarhon, a Turkish-Jewish linguist who ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency2y
Bosnian Jews mourn Moris Albahari, one of Sarajevo’s last Ladino speakers
It is believed that he was one of four native Ladino speakers remaining in a country where the Judeo-Spanish language once flourished and was spoken by luminaries like Flory Jagoda, the grande ...