skygiants: (swan)
skygiants ([personal profile] skygiants) wrote 2018-07-08 04:25 pm (UTC)

I also wish I knew more about Ladino; my heritage is Ashkenazi one hundred percent ("very well-behaved ancestors!" as my mother remarked after doing her for-fun DNA testing) but it's also really interesting to follow that branch.

(YIDDISH CHIVALRIC ROMANCES. I love them! There's a bit in Klezmer that jokes about turning any story into a Jewish story by changing a few key details, but I hadn't realized how much that was actually a thing until the section about medieval Yiddish pop lit in this history.)

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