Ruth Behar
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Ruth Behar is a Cuban-American anthropologist and writer. Her work includes academic studies, as well as poetry, memoir, and literary fiction. As an anthropologist, she has argued for the open adoptio
Ruth Behar
Judaeo-Spanish
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Judaeo-Spanish, also known as Ladino, Judezmo, or Spaniolit, is a Romance language derived from Castilian Old Spanish.
Ruth Behar
…Empire, the Balkan Wars, and the prospect of their sons’ conscription into the Ottoman army. Her father's side of the family spoke a combination of Judaeo-Spanish and Cuban Spanish. Her mother's side, by contrast, was Ashkenazi Jewish, with her maternal grandparents coming from Poland and Russia. When her Ashkenazi…
A 1902 Issue of La Epoca, a Judeo-Spanish newspaper from Salonica (Thessaloniki) during the Ottoman Empire
Nuevo Silibaryo Espanyol. Judaeo-Spanish textbook, Salonica, 1929
Cover of Me-'am lo'ez
Inscription at Yad Vashem in Hebrew, English, Yiddish, and Judaeo-Spanish