(JTA) — This article originally appeared on Alma. At the turn of the 20th century, the city of Monastir, present-day Bitola in North Macedonia, was home to the country’s largest Jewish community, ...

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 ...

Over the next couple of years, she got her hands on every piece of Ladino music she could find. She took Ladino lessons at a Sephardic synagogue in New York City. She delved deep into her own ancestry ...

Ladino singer/songwriter Sarah Aroeste and chef/teacher Susan Barocas have teamed up for a unique project designed to keep Sephardic traditions alive. “’Savor’ is a multisensory conversation between ...

Purists were skeptical when Sarah Aroeste debuted her Ladino rock ‘n’ roll band back in 2001. Most artists singing in the fading Sephardic language were traditionalists, performing classical versions ...

Sarah Aroeste went to school to study classical opera, and for one summer in the late 1990s, she trained in Israel, where her coach was a Ladino music scholar. Aroeste knew some Ladino folk songs ...

The Bosnian-born Holocaust survivor was the composer of “Ocho Kandelikas,” a Ladino Hanukkah song. (JTA) — Flory Jagoda, the Bosnian-born Holocaust survivor who became a champion of Ladino and ...

Sarah Aroeste will perform at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills as part of her Sounds of the Sephardic Sea program on March 19. The singer from New Jersey has four albums under her ...

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 ...

Singer, songwriter, guitarist and accordionist Flory Jagoda worked hard to preserve the music and language she inherited from her Sephardic Jewish ancestors in her adopted American home. Named a ...

The Sephardic singer’s new album was inspired by an invitation from non-Jews in North Macedonia to perform her original Ladino songs in the birthplace of her grandfather and a 104-year-old cousin. At ...