In its thirteenth consecutive year, the ucLADINO conference supports and celebrates the growing preservation of Ladino language and culture in the Judeo-Spanish diaspora. The theme for this year’s ucLADINO conference centers around Ladino in and beyond the home, exploring language and culture in domestic spaces and in migration. How has Ladino taken shape within domestic […]
For this year’s Al Finci Memorial Lecture two award-winning authors gather to discuss their writing and what drew them to Sephardic stories. Elizabeth Graver’s fifth novel, Kantika (Metropolitan Books/Holt, 2023), is a dazzling multi-generational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring themes of displacement, endurance, family, and home. Inspired by […]
The transmission of Jewish culinary traditions over generations has played a vital role in shaping the rich Sephardic culinary heritage we know today. This heritage is a testament to the resilience and cultural identity of the Jewish communities in Spain. Through recipes and cooking techniques passed down through families, Jewish cuisine has maintained its distinct […]
The Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe (CSYE) is an Open Access digital language archive sourced from hundreds of video-recorded interviews with Holocaust survivors from the USC Shoah Foundation. The materials contained in the corpus are a testament to the social and linguistic diversity of Yiddish-speaking Jewish society and an invaluable resource for linguistic research, […]
In 2017 in Charlottesville, antisemitism and anti-Black racism converged as white supremacists, in a highly choreographed and violent protest against the removal of a statue honoring a Confederate general, carried Confederate flags and chanted “Jews will not replace us.” In this talk, Magda Teter, the author of Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism […]
