Jewish World Review: Ladino - A Lost Language?
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Description: Interview with Avner Peretz, director of the Institute of Ladino in the Jerusalem suburb of Maale Adumim. Discusses his efforts to save the literature, proverbs, and oral traditions before they disappear.
(October 20, 1998)
Oct. 20, 1998 / 1 Mar-Cheshvan, 5759 Ladino --- a language destined to be lost? "THE RACE IS ON to save the treasures of Ladino." This is the way Avner Peretz, Director of the Institute of Ladino in the Jerusalem suburb of Maale Adumim described his efforts to record the the Sephardic equivalent of Yiddish before much of it vanishes. In this spirit Peretz, a sixth generation Jerusalemite of Turkish background, has been collecting books, newspapers, and manuscripts. And he has not stopped there. He has also made a concerted effort to document the Ladino oral tradition.
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