Istanbul Jews fight to save their ancestral tongue
If there’s one thing Dora Beraha regrets in her twilight years, it is not passing on the 500-year-old language of Istanbul’s Jews, Ladino, now on the point of extinction. “After us, will there still be people who speak this language?” says 90-year-old Beraha. “Surely, very few. It is possible that it will disappear.” Ladino is […]
