Daisy Braverman, a native Ladino speaker whose chilhood was spent between Izmir and Istanbul, two of the last Ladino-speaking communities anywhere, tells the story of her life at her home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Moving to the United States for higher education -- she holds a PhD and has research interests in linguistics, Turkish, and Ladino -- she became involved with the Sephardic community in New York and spurred a Ladino-language theater revival. She also shares memories of the Sephardic cooking and culture she knew growing up.
In Ladino with subtitles in Ladino and English by Kaela Alince Fong.
Ladino subtitles follow the Aki Yerushalayim system and are a work in progress -- please post or email info@elalliance.org with any corrections.
Part of the Ladino New York series (elalliance.org/languages/jewi.... Produced by Nicole Galpern.
16 июн 2020
