A personal account of Judeo-Spanish.
Interview with Avner Peretz, director of the Institute of Ladino in the Jerusalem suburb of Maale Adumim. Discusses his efforts to save the literature, proverbs, and oral traditions before they disappear.
Essay by an Ashkenazi scholar at Dartmouth University.
Overview of the Ladino language, with online forum, bibliography, and links.
A brief historical article about the language.
Discusses the differences between the Eastern dialect of Ladino, from Turkey and the Balkans, with closer ties to Old Spanish, and the Western dialect, used in parts of Morocco and Algeria, with extensive borrowings from Arabic. Part of a larger archive of Sephardic ballads and oral literature.
Society /
Ethnicity /
Jewish /
Sephardi
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