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“Who Knows One?” in Ladino: Songs at the Sephardic Passover Seder
04/06/2017
Ladino variations on a classic Passover song.

Sephardic Songs Add Merriment to Purim
03/21/2016
And what is a drinking party without drinking songs? As in other Jewish communities, drinking alcohol was part of the celebration of Purim, and an extensive corpus of rhymed, Ladino poems known as koplas (or komplas) developed by Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire