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.
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).
