Bosnian Jews mourn Moris Albahari, one of Sarajevo’s last Ladino speakers
Moris Albahari, a Holocaust survivor, former partisan fighter and one of the last Ladino speakers in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s dwindling Jewish community, passed away at the age of 93 last month.
Moris Albahari, shown in a documentary about his story called “Saved by Language,” was a pillar of Sarajevo's Jewish community.(photo credit: Courtesy of Brian Kirschen)ByDAVID I. KLEIN/JTAUpdated: