Rachel Bortnick (left) and Dina Eliezer are co-coordinators of the International Day of Ladino on Sunday at SMU. Dina Eliezer was born in Turkey and didn't know French. Her husband was born in France ...

The American Ladino League, which describes itself as a “new hub for Ladino language learning and community,” is a creative and multi-layered response to the growing interest in learning Ladino — and ...

Devin Naar wasn’t hired at the University of Washington to teach Sephardic studies. The young scholar, only in his late 20s at the time, actually came to the university in 2011 to teach modern Jewish ...

Along with drawing listeners in through stories and song, Lily Henley hopes attendees 'learn something about this endangered ...

What a pleasant surprise to see “Israelis Hoping They Won’t Hear the Last Word on Ancient Dialect” (June 13), on the long-neglected Sephardic-Ladino community. I was especially pleased that it ...

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Sephardic Jews in Bosnia have kept their language alive ever since they were expelled from Spain in the late 15th century and found a home in Sarajevo, but today it is spoken by ...

Devin Naar said the language, which has influences from Hebrew, Spanish, Arabic and Turkish, can bridge ties between Jews, Latinos and Muslims in Trump’s America. (JTA) — One-year-old Vidal doesn’t ...

Throughout the world, only about 60,000 people speak Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish. But the historic language of Sephardic Jewry is enjoying a bit of a renaissance. And what is believed to be the only ...

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 ...

It has been “a gesture of friendship between Spain, Israel and the Sephardic communities around the world,” according to co-host Viviana Rajel Barnatán. MADRID (JTA) — Matilde Gini de Barnatán and her ...

Devin Naar's collection includes hundreds of letters between family members in Seattle and their kin in the U.S. and abroad. At left is a letter written in Ladino with Hebrew script; at right is a ...