Events

Bendichas Manos: New York Ladino Day

Jan 21, 2024 Curated by Jane Mushabac and Bryan Kirschen
Featuring Marc Angel, Rachel Bortnick. Elizabeth Graver (Kantika), Sarah Aroeste & Susan Barocas. Tickets www.asfny.org/.

A Contemporary “Song of Songs” Inspires a Walk in and around Riverside Park

Nov 5, Sept 22, May 7, and May 5 2023
The places that animate Jane Mushabac’s story, “Kantiga.” https://www.mas.org/ and outdoorsclubny.org.

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 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.