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Flory Jagoda, Keeper of Sephardic Music Tradition, Dies at 97
A charismatic musician, she sang and wrote songs that linked her to Jewish ancestors who lived in Spain until their expulsion in 1492.
Flory Jagoda, left, performing with Heather Spence in Potomac, Md., in 2012. She sang songs she knew from her childhood in the former Yugoslavia and wrote new ones in the Sephardic tradition.Credit.Dayna Smith/Getty Images
Published March 14, 2021Updated March 15, 2021
To Flory Jagoda, the language, rhythms and joys of the Sephardic Jewish music she sang and wrote connected her to her beloved nona, her grandmother, who lived in the mountain village of Vlasenica in the former Yugoslavia.
We re running out of time to preserve endangered Jewish languages - Here s how we can stop them from being lost forever
Sarah Bunin Benor
(JTA) - I can t stop thinking about Flory Jagoda, Joseph Sassoon and Kitty Sassoon, three American Jews in their 90s who died last week. As an Ashkenazi Jew, I do not share their family backgrounds. But their deaths hit home for me, as they were among the last native speakers of endangered Jewish languages - languages I m helping to document before it s too late.
Flory Jagoda devoted much of her life to preserving one of those languages. She grew up in Bosnia speaking Ladino, also known as Judeo-Spanish, which her ancestors had maintained since their expulsion from Spain in 1492. She survi.
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