
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish, was once the mother tongue of Sephardic Jews in Turkey and other Jewish communities that once thrived around the Mediterranean. Now, there are only about 100,000 Ladino speakers scattered throughout the world. In this episode of Can We Talk?, we meet Karen Sarhon, a woman on a mission to keep Ladino, and the culture surrounding it, alive. Freelance journalist Durrie Bouscaren brings us this story from Istanbul, Turkey.
By Jewish Women's Archive4.8
150150 ratings
Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish, was once the mother tongue of Sephardic Jews in Turkey and other Jewish communities that once thrived around the Mediterranean. Now, there are only about 100,000 Ladino speakers scattered throughout the world. In this episode of Can We Talk?, we meet Karen Sarhon, a woman on a mission to keep Ladino, and the culture surrounding it, alive. Freelance journalist Durrie Bouscaren brings us this story from Istanbul, Turkey.

38,062 Listeners

6,826 Listeners

3,541 Listeners

1,204 Listeners

14,656 Listeners

111,948 Listeners

9,081 Listeners

2,374 Listeners

201 Listeners

447 Listeners

1,219 Listeners

1,074 Listeners

15,950 Listeners

1,688 Listeners

519 Listeners