Article on Ladino Singer, Ladino

A while back I was discussing the ambiguous position of Yiddish in Israel. So it seems fair to also note this article in Ha'aretz about Yasmin Levy, an Israeli singer who sings in Ladino and is seeking to revive, or at least keep alive, that language. Ladino is the Sephardic analog to the role Yiddish played among the Ashkenazim: a Jewish form of Spanish that, after the expulsion of the Jews of the Iberian peninsula, became the lingua franca of Jews in countries such as Italy, Greece, the Balkans, and the non-Arabic speaking parts of the Ottoman Empire. (Various Judaeo-Arabics were more common in the Arab world.) The Wikipedia article here seems pretty comprehensive, though I'm no expert. It also includes sample texts for those who find languages fascinating, as I guess you've figured out by now I do.