Events

Mazal Bueno: New York Ladino Day

Feb 2, 2025 - 2pm
Rachel Amado Bortnick, Tales of Ladinokomunita on its 25th anniversary; Jane Mushabac’s 1992 National Public Radio play Mazal Bueno: A Portrait in Song of the Spanish Jews, accompanied by the Grammy-nominated Western Wind Vocal Ensemble

In Conversation: Shira Dicker and Jane Mushabac.

Nov 3, 2024, 3:30pm. One Kensington Gate, Great Neck
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A Contemporary “Song of Songs” Inspires a Walk in and around Riverside Park

May 3, 2024, 11 am, and May 5, 2024, 9am.
The places that animate Jane Mushabac’s story, “Kantiga.” RSVP: https://www.mas.org/.

ENKONTROS DE ALHAD: “Jane Mushabac, Autora Sefardi” con Rachel Amado Bortnick

April 28, 2024 Enkontros avlados enteramente en Ladino
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Poetic Pasts: Ladino History by Other Means

April 4, 2023 UCLA Ladino Symposium, Recitations: Jane Mushabac and Nesi Altaras.

"Muestros Artistas" (Our Artists) Univ. of Washington, Seattle

February 27-28, 2023 Fiction writer Jane Mushabac was selected for this showcase, along with two musicians, two visual artists, and a poet.

New York Ladino Day

Jan 21, 2024 Jane Mushabac & Bryan Kirschen interview Elizabeth Graver (Kantika); “Savor” by Sarah Aroeste & Susan Barocas; Rabbi Marc Angel on Sephardic Civilization
Jan 29, 2023 Jane Mushabac and Bryan Kirschen interview Michael Frank
Jan 30, 2022 Eliezer Papo on Passover Parodies; Kantiga, Jane Mushabac's play based on the Song of Songs

Sephardic Jewry & Racism in America: Boston Workers Circle

May 13, 2021 Jane Mushabac, “Canakkale: Stories of Resistance”

Interview with a New York bookstore on His Hundred Years, A Tale.
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Interviews (a sampling): As a writer, NPR KUOW Mike Davis; as a writer, Sephardic Federation of Palm Beach County, FL; as a New York Ladino-speaker, Endangered Language Alliance; as a NYC historian, NY1, Stephanie Simon; as a NYC historian, 1-hour NBC television documentary, Diamond at the Rock: 75 Years of Radio City Music Hall; as the author of Mazal Bueno: A Portrait in Song of the Spanish Jews, WQXR, "Bob Sherman Show."

Past Readings (a sampling): Harvard University, Scribblers on the Roof, CUNY Graduate Center, the University of Washington, Tufts University, Hunter College, Small’s Jazz Club, California State University Long Beach, Bronx Community College, The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, SUNY New Paltz, Brooklyn College, the Rand Corporation, Colgate, The Americas Society, Kehila Kedosha Janina Museum, Jewish Historical Society of New York, Columbia University, City College, Bluestockings Books, Baruch College, Governors Island.