A Sea of Ladino: From Spain to Israel – Where Next? - Friday's Events

Friday, 25.12

8:00 “Living in a Sephardic home in Jerusalem” – Radio Jerusalem’s “The Jerusalem Parliament” – Broadcast Live on Radio Jerusalem 101FM

Host: Shuki Ben Ami, writer and journalist

Parliament members: Sami Abuganim, David Armoza, Nissim Armoza, Haim Katribas, Shulamit Shaviv

Vocals: Kochava Levi, Ziva Atar

Musical Director and Musician: Avi Asor

10:00 Intermission

10:30 Fifth Session: As of Now: Contemporary Ladino Culture

• Vanishing Remnants? Ladino Speaking Communities in the Mediterranean Region, 2015

Yaron Enosh, Journalist, Radio Host

• “Between Individual Ethnicity and a Digital Homeland” – Thoughts about Contemporary and Future Ladino Culture in the Contexts of Art and Research

Dr. Michal Held, poet and scholar of Ladino Literature and Culture and Hebrew Literature, Hebrew University

• “Does Being Sephardic Still Apply to Israel’s Young Generation?”

Prof. Oz Almog, Israeli sociologist and historian, Department of Israel Studies, Haifa University. A first glimpse of the upcoming book: As If There’s No Tomorrow – The Y-Generation Changes Israel, with Dr. Tamar Almog

11:15 Intermission

11:30 Concluding Session: Where Next? Is There a Future for Ladino Culture?

            Prof. Tamar Alexander, Chairperson, the National Council for Ladino Culture

            Facilitator: Mati Seri

Dr. Eliezer Papo, Deputy Director of the Moshe Gaon Center for Ladino Culture, Ben Gurion University

Prof. Shmuel Refael, Head of the Salti Center for Ladino Studies, Bar Ilan University

Matan Stein, The Younger Generation, Secretary of the National Council for Ladino Culture, publishes an internet youth journal

Hani Nachmias, Member of the Executive Board, the National Ladino Council, and co-founder of an app for teaching Ladino to children – Yeladino

Batya Kendall, President. the Association for Ladino Culture for Haifa and the North

13:30 Closing Act

            Between Saloniki and Haifa – Yehuda Poliker and Yaron Enosh

An intimate encounter, in which Poliker revisits, through stories and songs, his parents’ home in Kiryat Haim and the Greek music and Ladino songs they brought with them from Greece.