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“El va abandonar su kaza.”

He is going to abandon his house.

“Solias de tener kolores i agora estas demudada”

You used to have colours and now you have changed.

“Kale ajustado a esto un poko de agua i un poko de arina…”

A little water and a little flour needs to be added to this…

“El gato esta ai.”

The cat is there.

“Yo amo a mi famiya.”

I love my family.

“El es mi mejor amigo.”

He is my best friend.

“El pan es muy barato en esta tienda.”

The bread is very cheap at this store.

“El kaminero esta muy bien.”

The road is very good.

“No tiene el boy de su ermano.”

He does not have the size of his brother.

“El bel era muy estrecho i las mangas eran estrechas kantidad ke non les vinia la mania al braso.”

The waist was very narrow and the sleeves were so tight that there was barely room for their bracelets.

“Durante la gerra, kuando estávamos en Mombaroccio, el papá refuzó siempre de komer karne de puerko i de bestias muertas.”

During the war, when we were in Mombaroccio, dad always refused to eat meat from pigs and dead animals.

“El ninyo va a chupar el biveron.”

The baby is going to suck the bottle.

“El chan sonya en la maranya.”

The bell rings in the morning.

“Delantre de ti io mi orgolio abato I mi corason lo razgo con kevranto”

I suppress my pride before you, and my heart tears it with despair.

“El kamino es derecho.”

The path is straight.

“Dia i noce de mi no se aparta”

Day and night it separates not from me.

“El día es ermozo.”

The day is beautiful.

“Penso entonses a dar la notisya a sus paryentes i a su suegro Hayim Pacha.”

She then thought to give notice to her relatives and her brother-in-law Hayim Pacha.

“Alhad la noche vamos a asender la primera kandela de muestras Hanukiyas.”

Sunday night we’re going to light the first candle of our Hanukiyas.

“2013, Bouena Sarfatty Garfinkle, "Family Dynamics", in Renée Levine Melammed, An Ode to Salonika: The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty, p. 80”

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“Dio santo, los ojos apretados me dejan komo en la trupa de bestia, kontando animales para poeder dormir.”

Good Lord, the shy eyes abandon me like to a pack of beasts, telling animals stop being able to sleep.

“Es menester azer buen echo kada diya.”

It is necessary to do good work every day.

“El libro es grande.”

The book is big.

“Deke la solidaridad es emportante? Porke la solidaridad es lo djusto. Porke; todos bivimos en una sosyetad...”

Why is solidarity important? Because solidarity is what is right. Because we all live in a society...

“Yo era chiko en este tiempo.”

I was small at that time.

“El es mi ermano.”

He is my brother.

“Vay a ver, ninguno sabía hazer el problema ese.”

Go see, nobody knew about causing this problem.

“El libro está eskritu en espanyol.”

The book is written in Spanish.

“El muchacho va estar aki manana.”

The boy will be here tomorrow.

“En esta ensiklopedia es kontado, entre otras, ke en segito a los pogromes echos en Polonia, en los anyos 1648-1649, los djudios de Turkia embezaron sovre la triste suerte de miles de djudios ke avian kayido en kativerio i ke estavan en peligro de ser vendidos komo esklavos.”

It says in this encyclopedia that, among other things, following the pogroms committed in Poland from 1648-1649, Turkey's Jews learned of the misfortune of thousands of Jews who fell into captivity and were in danger of being sold as slaves.

“El va fazer una torta para la fiesta.”

He is going to make a cake for the party.

“La kreensia en la yegada del Mashiah, punto sentral en la fe de los mekubalim, se ilustra en la sigiente leyenda sovre Rabi Yitshak Luria.”

The trust in the Messiah's arrival, a central point in the cabalists' faith, is illustrated in the following legend of Rabi Yitshak Luria.

“El marido le dio el get a su mujer.”

The husband gave the divorce document to his wife.

“Oyí un grito en la kaleja.”

I heard a shout in the street.

“Ey senyor, voy a esnoga.”

Hi mister, I’m going to the synagogue.

“avian eksplikado a muestra mama ke, achakes del numero chiko de famiyas, no se puedia asperar de tener un ayudo”

they had explained to our mother that, because of the small number of families, one could have no hope of getting help

“Las mujeres están en la kaza.”

The women are in the house.

“El ombre se sintio libero despues de salir de la prizion.”

The man felt free after leaving the prison.

“Malgrado su simplisidad, el Meam Loez es un livro bazado sovre una rika i serioze dokumentasion, ke inkluye a todas las prinsipales ovras de baza del djudaizmo.”

Despite its simplicity, the Meam Loez is a book based on a rich and serious documentation, which includes all the basic working principles of Judaism.

“En los kuentos djidiós Djohá es el furbo ke embrolia el no‐Djidió, komo en los kuentos árabos el Djohá árabo aparese komo el ke riushe a “azersela” al Djidió¹¹.”

In the Jewish accounts Djohá is the cunning one who confuses the gentile, as in the Arab accounts Djohá seems like he succeeds at ‘becoming’ the Jew.

“El ombre esta met.”

The man is dead.

“Voy a meter el pan en la mesa.”

I am going to put the bread on the table.

“Todo el mundo va a venir.”

Everybody is going to come.

“En la mano tiene una rizá estrechada en el punyo i lo d’afuera komo una roza al derredor de la mano.”

She has in hand a handkerchief crumpled in her fist and like a rose around the hand from outside.

“esta ropa es menos buena ke la ke vites ayer”

This clothing is less good than what you saw yesterday.

“En mi corassón están grabadas con muncho cariño unos recuerdos endiamantados de la pascua enca de mis padres, ya ḥasrá.”

Advantageous memories of my parents’ home Seder are kept so dearly in my heart; those were the days.

“Los pastelikos vo kumer kon almendrikas y la miel.”

I’m going to eat little pastries with almonds and honey.

“Na! La kaza esta aki.”

Here! The house is here.

“Todas tus repuestas nada no rezolven”

All your responses resolve nothing.

“Con bastón y con sombrero, Ya fuera Shabbat o Pascua, A eznoga siempre el primero, Antes que nadie llegaba.”

With cane and hat, 'Twas already Shabbat or Passover, Always first at synagogue, Before anybody else was arriving.

“Eliau Anavi ke lo estava mirando d'enfrente se aserko de el i le disho: Dime ombre, deke estas de negra umor ?”

The prophet Elijah, who was watching him from across, approached him and said: Tell me, man, why are you in a bad mood?

“ביינאבﬞינטוראדﬞו איל בﬞארון קי נון אנדה אין קונסיזﬞו די מאלוס.”

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked.

“E hizo cortinas de cabreño para tienda ſobre el tabernaculo, onze cortinas hizo à ellas.”

And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains shalt thou make them.

“La oveja esta en el kampo.”

The sheep is in the field.

“El komio un pom kolorado.”

He ate a red apple.

“I ala onze [6 AM], ala turka, vinyeron en grande akompanyamyento delos askyeres turkos adelantre i detras, kompanyas de soldados de kada nasyon ke fueron dezbarkados delas naves, djunto todos los viche-amirales i komandantes, i ofisyeres de kada nave ke se topo en muestro porto.”

And at eleven [6 A.M.], a great escort of Turkish soldiers came ahead of and behind the Turk; companies of soldiers from every nation disembarked from the ships, together with all the vice-admirals, commanders, and officers from every ship found in our port.

“Son nombrozas las personas ke pensan ke la globalizasyon va traer una monotonia i ke munchos paizes van a pedrer sus otentisidad, kostumbres, uzos de bivir ets... i ke los rikos van a ser mas rikos i los proves mas proves.”

Numerous are the people who think that globalization will bring about a monotony and that many countries will lose their authenticity, customs, way of life, etc... and that the rich will be richer and the poor poorer.

“Sus parientes estan en la sivdad.”

His parents are in the city.

“La patata es un alimento de la tierra.”

The potato is a food from the earth.

“Munchas obras de diferentes autores fueron escritas sobre este mismo suj́eto, pero aquea que nośotros empezamos la puḅlicación hoy es escrita por un maestro autor donde el material es recoǵido en los diversos tratados del Midráš.”

Many works from different authors were written about this very subject, but what we are beginning with today is the publication written by an educational author where the material is recognised in various tracts from the Midrash.

“La limpyeza era el fetcho de una banda de perros errantes, flakos i yenos de pulgas ke se kargavan de desbarasar los montones de suzyeda.”

Cleanliness was in a pack of stray dogs’ [best] interest, as they were weak and lousy from so much filth.

“La ciudad de Bursa es fraguada en amphitheatre a los pies del Olympe (Oulou Dağ) y abrasa una vaste y magnifica valle con un hermoso panorama.”

The city of Bursa has constructed an amphitheatre at the feet of Olympus and embraces a vast and wonderful valley with a beautiful panorama.

“El presidénte avlo a la nasyon.”

The president spoke to the nation.

“El kaminar es una koza muy emportante para ser sano.”

Walking is a very important thing to be healthy.

“Si tiene kaza, va a durmir ay.”

If he has a house, he will sleep there.

“No puedo bivir sin ti.”

I cannot live without you.

“Yo so muy feliz oy.”

I am very happy today.

“El sol kale kaliente oy.”

The sun is hot today.

“Con bastón y con sombrero, Ya fuera Shabbat o Pascua, A eznoga siempre el primero, Antes que nadie llegaba.”

With cane and hat, 'Twas already Shabbat or Passover, Always first at synagogue, Before anybody else was arriving.

“Komo es byen savido, los autores sefaradis eskrivyeron munchas ovras literarias en la lingua djudeo-espanyola ke, sovre todo durante los siglos diezimueve i vente, se estanparon en letras rashi en las estamparias djudias ke se topavan en las sivdades kon grandes komunidades sefaradis del Oriente (Estambul, Izmir, Salonika i otras).”

As is well known, Sephardic authors have written many literary works in Judezmo that, above all during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, were inscribed in Rashi in the Jewish inscriptions found in cities in the East with large Sephardic communities (Istanbul, Izmir, Salonica, & alibi).

“Mi ijo - disho la madre - no es verdad. La salud es una trezoro mas presiozo ke todo el oro del mundo.”

My son - said the mother - it's not true. Health is a treasure more precious than all the gold in the world.

“La sangre es de kolor rojo.”

Blood is red in color.

“En 1923, se modernizo la identidad de las personas, pero a unos ermanos de mi Papu le metieron en el nufus la alkunya Rodrik, i a la otra mitad de la famiya, la alkunya Rodriges.”

People’s identities were modernised in 1923, but like some of my grandfather’s brothers they put him on the Rodrik surname identity card, and as for my family’s other half, the surname Rodriges.

“Otras biviendas eran los shurbetes (¹²) (şerbet en turko) de agua i sumo de fruta, i sovre todo de vijna, i la subiá (sübiye en turko) (o pipitada en djudeo‐espanyol), echa del sumo de las pipitas de melón sekadas i molidas, i metidas en mojo en agua en un panyo.”

Other beverages were sherbet (şerbet in Turkish) from water, fruit juice, and above all from cherries, and melon seed juice (sübye in Turkish, or pipitada in Judezmo), made from the juice of dried and ground melon kernels, and dipped in fabric in water.

“Mashalla, topates lo ke bushkates tanto tiempo, en un bogo en el fondo del baul - despues de haloshentos anyos!”

Congratulations, you found what you were looking for after so much time, in a bundle at the bottom of the trunk — after many hundreds of years!

“Tu sos mi amigo.”

You are my friend.

“Akoruto, kuando afita una trajediya, munchos bushkan a deskuvrir un lado positivo.”

Often, when a tragedy takes place, many people try to discover a positive side.

“El vapor va salir al puerto manana.”

The ship will leave for the port tomorrow.

“Al bakal kuando abashi Yo serrado lo topí, I si salgo a viajar Una grev ay vo topar.”

Down to the shopkeeper when I went, I found [out that he was] closed, and if I go on a trip, there’s a strike [that] I’m going to find.