Ladino, also known as Judeo-Spanish, is the centuries-spanning tongue of Sephardic Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492. For over five hundred…
Ladino, the language of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, carries an extraordinary cargo in just three letters. The small English conjunction "but"…
Ladino retains a syntactic habit that modern Castilian has largely abandoned. Sephardic Jews expelled from the Iberian peninsula in 1492 carried a Romance…
The Hebrew word sefer means “book”, but its cultural meaning reaches well beyond an ordinary bound volume. In Jewish life, it can refer to a sacred text, a…
The Sephardic lexicon is full of small words that open whole rooms of memory. Among them, kaza stands out for the way it folds two seemingly separate worlds…
A tin of pso sits at the centre of a Sephardic Shabbat table, and few diners pause to consider that the small, homely word comes from the Greek ψωμί (psomi).…
The Sephardic tradition carried into Judeo-Spanish an inheritance of medieval Hispanic wisdom, layered with Turkish, Greek, Hebrew, and Balkan echoes. Money in…
In the Sephardic lexicon, the simple noun renk carries centuries of memory inside its three consonants and one vowel. Where a speaker of modern Castellano…