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This introductory workshop to Ladino, which is part of the UCL Engagement project ‘London Ladino: Co-creating Judeo-Spanish voices with local Sephardic Jews’ (collaborators: Alejandro Acero Ayuda and Victoria Lisek), aims to reconnect Sephardic Jews living in London with Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), i.e., the language of their ancestors, which currently classified by UNESCO as a “severely endangered language”. Attendees will have the chance to acquire the fundamentals of Ladino (including its history, alphabets, basic interactions in Ladino and current status), thus granting them access to a fundamental part of their ethnic background, culture, and religion, plus the possibility to communicate with many other Sephardim around the world through the internet.
If you have not received your Zoom link, please email Shirli Gilbert at shirli@sirmartingilbertlearningcentre.org
Dr Carlos Yebra López is a UKRI Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London. His research focuses on the revitalisation of Ladino by digital means. He is the co-founder and CEO of Ladino 21 Community Interest Company (Non-Executive Director: Alejandro Acero; External Advisor: Dr Aldo Sevi), a public outreach initiative and digital archive devoted to grassroots documentation of Ladino through audiovisual materials in Ladino produced in the 21st century (www.ladino21.org).