Definitions
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- noun the Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in the Hebrew script
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As a solo performer, she sang not only the Ladino/Judeo-Spanish songs most of us know her for, but also songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, and a total of some twenty other languages garnering frequent appreciative comments on her good pronunciation.
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Louises conversation and memories are filled with Ladino [Judeo-Spanish] words and phrases spoken within Spanish-Sephardic Jewish cultur
Personal Information for Louise Azoze Jewish Women's Archive 2010
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Dr. Judith R. Cohen is a performer and ethnomusicologist specializing in Judeo-Spanish ( "Ladino") Sephardic songs, as well as in medieval and traditional music, including Balkan, Portuguese, Yiddish, and French Canadian, pan-European balladry, and songs from Crypto-Jewish regions of the Portuguese-Spanish border.
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Dr. Judith R. Cohen is a performer and ethnomusicologist specializing in Judeo-Spanish ( "Ladino") Sephardic songs, as well as in medieval and traditional music, including Balkan, Portuguese, Yiddish, and French Canadian, pan-European balladry, and songs from Crypto-Jewish regions of the Portuguese-Spanish border.
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As a solo performer, she sang not only the Ladino/Judeo-Spanish songs she was known for, but also songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, and some 20 other languages.
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Louises conversation and memories are filled with Ladino [Judeo-Spanish] words and phrases spoken within Spanish-Sephardic Jewish cultur
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They converse in English and Yiddish, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) and German.
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Judy Frankel, an acclaimed singer of Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) music, passed away in 2008.
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In 1994, she went to Macau and spoke with East Timor refugees, learning a song about peace from one of them, a song she subsequently sang in Lisbon for an audience which included the then president of Portugal, Judeo-Spanish writer and long-time Jewish supporter.
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By the 1930s, the American Judeo-Spanish press estimated the total Ladino-speaking population nationally at roughly fifty thousand.
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