Amid the ongoing war with Hamas, Jerusalem's Ladino Orchestra has become a healing mobile music unit available to all who call upon it across the country.
Scholars and Ladino speakers agree that he single-handedly revived the language at a time when it was on the decline and Sephardi culture had lost relevance.
Tamir is coming over together with the Portugal-based Israeli-Portuguese Al’Fado band, predominantly to perform Ladino material.
One cannot visit a country with a culture as rich as that of Turkey without paying homage to some of its outstanding sites.
Izmir, Turkey, once known in Greek as Smyrna, has had a Jewish presence since antiquity, with early church documents mentioning Jews as far back as the second century AD.
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