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 ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (RNS) — When Flory Jagoda, the superstar of Ladino music, died in 2021, it was a wakeup call for Vladimir Mickovic. Mickovic, a Bosnian musician from Mostar, realized that ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. (JTA) — This ...

This was the first time I went to the Sephardic Music Festival. Now in its seventh year, the festival held shows in New York from December 20 to 27, everywhere from 700-person capacity clubs to ...

The musician will bring audience members on "A Sephardic Musical Journey" Monday when she takes the stage for the Shaol Pozez Memorial Lectureship Series, offered through the University of Arizona ...

Suzanne Bona: Trio Sefardi is a Northern Virginia based ensemble that performs traditional songs of the Sephardim, the descendants of Jews exiled from Spain in 1492. They will be performing in ...

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 ...

When Maya and Noa Dori were kids growing up in Israel, they used to spend Shabbat with their grandmother Lisa Romano. One night, as Maya tells it, they walked outside and “started to pinpoint the ...

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 ...

Specializing in music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance using instruments of that time period, Musica da Camera opens its 2014-15 season by reprising a concert it originally presented in 1990.

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, 11,000 ...