This volume contains a new history of what scholar Devin E. Naar has termed the “Ladino Left,” the loose collection of Ottoman-born radicals active in New York City in the early 20th century. It also features a six-song excerpt from a 1919 Ladino Socialist Songbook. In honor of this publication, Jewish Currents has commissioned new recordings of two songs from the songbook: “La Internasional,” performed and recorded in Brooklyn by a group led by Daniel Elias and Simone Salmon, and “El Imno Sosialista,” performed and recorded in Los Angeles by Lu Coy, who also composed an original melody.
Buy your copy today.