Delves into Sephardic culture through nineteenth and twentieth-century Ladino sources. Develops practical and critical skills for interacting with Ladino texts while exploring transformations in social and historical contexts through folklore, literature, the press, theater, music, and humor. Prerequisite: LADINO 100; recommended: courses in modern Jewish history or history of the modern Middle East, or language courses in Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Turkish, or Arabic.