Directed by Patricia Giniger Snyder
Film about the Jews of Girona, a Catalonian city that used to be an important Jewish hub in Spain. The film also discusses Catalan-Ladino folk music.
More information can be found at the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University website.
Directed by Kathleen Regan
Documentary about Judy Frankel (1942-2008) an important figure in the preservation and the performance of the Sephardic folksong.
More information can be found at the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University website.
This is a comprehensive database of information, lyrics, and sounds of Jewish, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Judeo-Spanish songs.
A collection of life-cycle songs: birth, circumcision, wedding etc., sung in Ladino. All songs were recorded, transcribed and annotated by Susana Weich-Shahak. The CD accompanies a book of the same title, by the above editor (Yuval Music Series, vol. 1, 1989). 1st edition (1989) was published as a cassette.
Analyzes the style of 91 examples from the Judeo-Spanish repertoire on the basis of recordings preserved in the National Sound Archive (NSA), Jerusalem. An appendix contains 14 examples together with musical transcriptions (with data on informants and recording sites).
