In Judeo-Spanish, or Ladino, a single word can carry the history of how a community learns. Meldado is a useful example: it may describe something read, yet it…
In the living vocabulary of Judeo-Spanish, kola denotes a necklace or a close-fitting collar worn at the throat. Sephardic families preserved the term across…
The collaborative dictionary project documenting Judeo-Spanish (also known as Ladino) reveals how a single word can carry layers of meaning shaped by centuries…
Hebrew sits at the heart of Jewish liturgy as the original language in which Scripture was composed and in which the Temple service once unfolded. Within that…
Judeo-Spanish, often called Ladino, is the language carried by Sephardic Jews out of Iberia in 1492 and across the Ottoman Empire and beyond. Today it survives…
Judeo-Spanish, often called Ladino, is the Romance tongue Sephardic Jews carried out of Iberia in 1492 and nurtured for centuries under Ottoman skies. It…
Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish, carries traces of the many ports, markets and communities through which Sephardic Jews travelled. Among its less familiar forms is…
In Ladino, the words sinyor and sinyora are more than direct equivalents of “Mr” and “Mrs”. They belong to a vocabulary of courtesy shaped by older Spanish,…
A grandmother in Plovdiv unties a knot of soft white fibre. She calls it "koton" while spinning thread for a baby gown. Half a world away, in the Namoi Valley…
Judeo-Spanish, known as Ladino, carries forward a grammatical habit from medieval Castilian that English speakers recognise instantly: the periphrastic future…