Ladino, also known as Judeo-Spanish ... voice echoes the song’s haunting lament of the sting of lost love, in a ballad that is believed to predate the 1492 expulsion. “Recording the songs ...

while the World Festival of Sacred Music in Los Angeles featured two ensembles singing Ladino love songs and ballads. One of these was Los Angeles’s Flor de Serena, which sang to a crowd of the ...

and that is when I began to think and write in Ladino,” recalls Raz. Raz embarked on a musical journey that took her back 500 years to the romantic ballads and haunting liturgical hymns in the ...

“from romance [a central form in Ladino literature, connected to the Iberian ballad] to copla [song based on biblical themes] to cantiga [popular modern song form of Ladino].” Rachel ...

This Sunday is Ladino Day in New York — a vibrant celebration of the language that was central to the culture of Sephardic Jews worldwide for more than 500 years. Right now, Ladino is having an ...

The sixth annual New York Ladino Day will take place on Sunday with the theme ““Kontar i Kantar,” which means “Storytelling and Singing.” (New York Jewish Week) — The sixth annual New ...

The world’s first Ladino ulpan was launched this summer. For two-and-a-half weeks, 28 students were immersed in the Judeo-Spanish language of the Sephardic Jews at the inaugural session of the ...