Nuestro agradecimiento a todas estas personas que participaron en nuestros ciclos del 2024 (por órden de aparición) Esther Gonen, Karen Sharhon, Niso Maçoro, Jenny Laneurie, Bella Cohen Clougher, Line Amselem, Abraham Bengio, Jake Kohenak, Albert Israel, Rachel Amado Bortnick, Aaron Shapiro, Alex Acero Ayuda, Ítalo Felizardo, Devin Naar, Mariana Mayorski, Esther Rute, Aldina Quintana, Mario Sinay, Maria Ángeles Gallego, Gloria Ascher, Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez, Isak Alaluf, Alvaro Lopez Asencio, Shai Cohen, Bryan …
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Virtual Ladino Day – Dec. 3, 2023 – «Kantika» – Conversation with novelist Elizabeth Graver
We invite you to the University of Washington Sephardic Studies Program’s 11th Annual Ladino Day program featuring novelist Elizabeth Graver, author of Kantika, A Sephardic Novel. The program will take place via Zoom on Sunday, December 3 at10 am PT/ 1 pm ET/ 8 pm Israel/ 9 pm Turkey. We will have the pleasure …
Read More »Salónica, una nueva luz en la historia de los judíos
El arzobispo Meyer viene a celebrar el aniversario de la liberación de Tesalónica. Es el 19 de julio de 1946. El Telegrama del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores informa a la Comunidad Israelí de Tesalónica para un mensaje de la “Misión Militar en Berlín sobre elementos saqueados por los alemanes” que …
Read More »The First American Ladino Novella: Shimon Nessim’s Amerika! Amerika! with Devin E. Naar
Presented on Zoom, August 17, 2021 Can you name a great Ladino author of fiction? So little is known about original Ladino fiction, whether in the Ottoman Empire or the United States, that the answer is probably «no.» This talk delves into the history of Ladino fiction, explores reasons why …
Read More »Entrevista: La V Cumbre Erensya en Seattle, con Miguel de Lucas – Radio Sefarad
EL INVITADO DEL CENTRO SEFARAD-ISRAEL – Desde el 27 al 31 de mayo, la ciudad de Seattle(Estados Unidos) acoge la quinta cumbre Erensya que reunirá a representantes de catorce comunidades de todo el mundo. Miguel de Lucas, director del Centro Sefarad-Israel nos relata in situ cómo se está desarrollando este excepcional encuentro que “se caracteriza por ser el más …
Read More »Ladino Day Turns to Storytelling — and to the Future
The sixth annual event at the UW headlines with French Sephardic activist Francois Azar. A parrot perches in front of a packed synagogue on Rosh Hashanah. Advertised as “a Jewish parrot” (“un papagayo djudió”) at Bloomingdale’s, the bird had amazed his new owner, a wealthy merchant from Istanbul, with performances of Hebrew …
Read More »This Sephardi studies scholar sees preserving Ladino as an ‘act of resistance’ against Trump
One-year-old Vidal doesn’t know the significance behind the lullaby his father sings him at bedtime. He knows it helps him fall asleep, but not that the Ladino song is part of an effort to teach him what served as the lingua franca of Sephardi Jews of the Ottoman Empire for over 500 years. …
Read More »The Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America celebrates Its Centennial by Devin E. Naar
On September 22, 2016, hundreds of members of the Brotherhood will gather at a temple in Long Island to observe the incredible milestone. The organization, which first met in a Lower East Side café in 1915, strives to connect to the youth today. This day, 350 guests will gather at …
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