“Music transcends,” he said. “Music, art — these are the things that everybody can relate to. You don’t have to be Italian to enjoy an Italian opera.” Margarita Kligerman had “no idea what Ladino was, ...

On July 9, amid rainwater cracks in limestone rock, charcoal ibex painted by prehistoric man and discarded artifacts from Victorian-era picnics, a loose collective of Jewish women will sing songs of ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Avraham Pengas, a veteran bouzouki player, says few Ashkenazic musicians can make Sephardic music come alive. Ljuba Davis, he says, is “absolutely” one of them. Davis (her first name ...

Flory Jagoda, the Sarajevo-born Holocaust survivor and Sephardic musician who brought Ladino music to the wider world died last month at the age of 97. Jagoda was a lifelong lover of her ...

If you don’t know Ladino music, Yasmin Levy is a great place to start. The beautiful Israeli chanteuse (whose father was also a popular singer) performs with a raw, deep passion in the Judeo-Spanish ...

When Sarah Aroeste was growing up in Princeton, N.J., she could sense her family was different from the other Jewish families, but did not know exactly why. “I ...

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ALFORD — First off, it's "Ladino," not "Latino." Easy mistake. L-a-d-i-n-o. For Sarah Aroeste, of Alford, one of the world's most prominent cultural ambassadors of this esoteric Judeo-Spanish dialect, ...

BOSTON — Tutti Druyan grew up in a home reverberating with music as the daughter of two successful Israeli musicians — singer Gitit Shoval, who catapulted onto the Israeli pop scene as a 13-year-old ...

SAN FRANCISCO — When dancer Miriam Peretz and musician Rachel Valfer perform “Madre: The Ladino Project” Sunday evening, they will manifest a long held dream. The pair of women, a single mother and a ...