Jews and Latinos are often discussed as different categories, but of course there are many Jewish communities across Latin America and some have made their way to the United States. On this episode of Latino USA, we explore the history of Jewish migration throughout the Americas, hear personal stories of family and identity from Jewish Latinos themselves, and learn about the struggle to preserve a fading Spanish-Jewish language known as Ladino.
FEATURED IMAGE: Verónica Zaragovia’s family at Passover Seder in Miami (CREDIT: Verónica Zaragovia)
As you know, I have a friend of mine, who’s a sephardic jew, who would be interested to your topic.
We Sephardic Jews living since many many yrs in Turkey, speak Ladino and we are very proud of being Jewish.
Fabulous! Or….As my granddaughter says, “Digame, Bubbelah!”
Lena..Shalom ve Hags Samearch
Guys My family originate from Portugal then Morocco then Gibraltar and for the past 250 years London..we have never spoken Ladino..it was and is the language of the Jewish community in the Ottoman Empire..it was never in the West..In Gibraltar they spoke Llanito..in Britain for a short time Portuguese was used in the Sephardi Synagogues..not Lladino..What it means is those that left Spain (what was to become Spain) before 1500 and took their language with them..
we would like to learn more
How do you say “peace” or “shalom” in Llanito?