LASP Hosts Ladino Voices Symposium and Concert

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The Latin American Studies Program, an affiliated program of the The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, held a symposium and concert on March 14, 2016 focusing on contemporary use of Ladino, a language derived from medieval Spanish, with influences from such languages as Aragonese, Astur-Leonese, Catalan, Galician-Portuguese, and Mozarabic.

The symposium was attended by about 50 people and started with a panel focusing on contemporary Ladino as a vehicle of cultural articulation among Jewish people in Latin America and beyond, in particular those who do not share in the dominant culture’s understanding of what it means to be Jewish, or Latin American. The panel included Mexican poet Myriam Moscona, Mexican writer and novelist Jacabo Sefami and Ladino scholar Monique Balbuena.

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LASP Hosts Ladino Voices Symposium and Concert

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