In case you missed it over the weekend, our friends over at Latino USA put out a great episode focused Judaism in the Latino world – just in time for the start of Hanukkah. The episode is a nuanced look at an intersection of two cultures that often gets overlooked when we talk about Latinidad.
According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Latin America is home to an estimated 500,000 Jews, and that doesn’t count the families who have made their way to the US.
Hit play on the episode below to learn more about the history of Jewish migration throughout the Americas, as well as the struggle to preserve a fading Spanish-Jewish language known as Ladino.