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Dear friends and visitors,
Sorry for being on a vacation for so long and not being able to dedicate myself for sending new posts !
So, as a fast breaker and an apology - here goes a beautiful Ladino music video to warm hearts up with this melodious song in this Jewish language spoken by so many Sephardim worldwide.
I hope to be able to write new post in the near future !!!
If I don't be able to write before Pessach, which I truely wish and hope that I will...In any case I wish all a Kasher'v chag samech !
May the Force Be With Us
12 hours ago
Dear Chany,
ReplyDeleteI am a Jewish author and am writing a novel called "The Eyes of My Heart" (Los Ojos de mi Caro) which is a story based on the life of my Egyptian great grandmother who, at the age of 12, was forced to marry a man more than 3 times her age and move to Palestine, never to see her family again. I have a website I would love for you to visit, to see what books I have already published and my other short stories. Do you know of some good blogs and websites that I can visit to connect with others who might be interested in reading my book? Do you know of any good resources for Ladino phrases and sayings? Thanks so much,
Amy Lederman at www.amyhirshberglederman.com
Hi Dear Amy,
ReplyDeleteI feel very honored to receive a message from you!
At first I would like to say that your novel sounds extremaly interesting and I'd love to read it. Therefore, I have put you website on the interesting sites to be checked on the left.
I don't know if you saw that there's user called Ceniboy at youtube that has videos teaching Ladino, if you didn't see it, here goes one of them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJph2Ggfkfo&feature=related
Maybe you could contact him; in case you don't have an youtube channel, I could try to contact him.
some free dictionaries online:
http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Spanish-Ladino/Ladino-Vocabulary.htm
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/Ladino/
http://web.archive.org/web/20030609011442/http://133.12.37.60/diksionaryo-LK/
http://www.sephardifolklit.org/flsj/
There are Two courses, book and CD(s), available for learning Ladino available through Amazon:
Beginner's Ladino (with 2 CDs) by Alla Markova. ISBN 0781812259
Manual of Judeo-Spanish (with 1 CD) by Marie-Christine Varol. ISBN 1934309192
Also there's another dictionary which is on sale online at this site http://home.earthlink.net/~benven/dictionary.htm
There's a site from a ladino singer which you may find very helpful which is http://www.saraharoeste.com
Actually there are many "community" groups in facebook about ladino and for sure they would be interested in a novel involving the language.
Websites :
http://www.americansephardifederation.org/
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/7328/habla-ladino-sephardim-meet-to-preserve-language/
http://www.tapuz.co.il/tapuzforum/main/forumpage.asp?id=420
The rabbi from the manhattan portuguese-spanish synagogue is ladino scholar, so maybe it would be interesting for you to contact the shearit synagogue (http://www.shearithisrael.org )
a small documentary about ladino :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtMMDkwOScU&feature=related
I hope these sites may help you in your mission and I'm looking forward to hearing your feedback and the successful upcoming of your new novel! Kol tov !