# Event Details

- **Event Name**: A Jewish Language for All Occasions: Ladino Culture and Its Innovations
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 17 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://z.umn.edu/DevinNaarLecture

While Yiddish expressions pepper American English and great Yiddish novels are celebrated still today, comparatively little is known about Ladino and the cultural world it shaped from 1492 until World War II in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire. While spoken today by relatively few people in the United States, Europe, and Israel, Ladino (also known as Judezmo and Judeo-Spanish) melded Jewish, Iberian, and eastern Mediterranean cultures to produce a new and vibrant language that permeated every aspect of Jewish life in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans. This lecture delves into the defining features of the Ladino language as a source of Sephardic resilience and adaptation after the expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula through the creation of serious and humorous Ladino folk culture, and the production of key works of Ladino literature, both religious and secular.
 

Bio: Devin E. Naar is an associate professor of History and Jewish Studies and chair of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington in Seattle. His first book, published by Stanford University Press, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece, won a 2016 National Jewish Book Award and the prize for best book from the Modern Greek Studies Association. His current book project explores the history of Sephardic Jews from the Ottoman Empire in the United States during the twentieth century.

Cosponsors: Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Department of History, Institute for Global Studies, Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies, University of St. Thomas
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/minneapolis/a-jewish-language-for-all-occasions-ladino-culture-and-its-innovations/200029758168954
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 18

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Minneapolis
- **state**: MN
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Sabes JCC
- **lat**: 44.965371103857
- **long**: -93.334021575976
- **full address**: Sabes JCC, 4330 Cedar Lake Rd S, Minneapolis, MN 55416-3700, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is A Jewish Language for All Occasions: Ladino Culture and Its Innovations being held?
  - **A:** A Jewish Language for All Occasions: Ladino Culture and Its Innovations takes place on Tue, 17 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Tue, 17 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm at Sabes JCC, 4330 Cedar Lake Rd S, Minneapolis, MN 55416-3700, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing A Jewish Language for All Occasions: Ladino Culture and Its Innovations?
  - **A:** A Jewish Language for All Occasions: Ladino Culture and Its Innovations is organized by Center for Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota.

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