Preserving Ladino music in all of its authentic glory is a difficult task — and many believe an important one — because of the relative paucity of historical recordings. After the Holocaust ...
(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 ...
If American-born Jewish modernist writer Gertrude Stein would have had a penchant for, say, ethnic music, she may very well have contended that “Ladino music is Ladino music is Ladino music.” ...
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 ...