Ladino: The Sephardi World in Motion

Ladino — the Judeo-Spanish born from medieval Castile — became the circulatory system of the Sephardi diaspora after 1492.

As Jews relocated to Salonika, Istanbul, Sarajevo, Izmir, and North Africa, Ladino evolved into a portable homeland: a language that carried Iberian law codes, romances, recipes, proverbs, and rabbinic........

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