"Will They Taste What We Taste?": Cooking Up Ladino with Benny Ginsberg-Margo

<p>Growing up in a polyglot household, Benny Ginsberg-Margo developed a deep fascination with the intersection of language and identity. With mixed Sephardi and Ashkenazi roots, he developed a connection to Ladino after encountering it during his bar mitzvah. As a linguistics student and WikiTongues fellow, Benny launched Mersi Muncho, a Ladino cooking YouTube channel, to revitalize the language and celebrate Sephardi culture. In this episode, he shares his vision for Ladino&#39;s future as a community language for generations to come.</p><p>Heritage Words - conversations about the words we inherit and the meaning they bring to our lives - is produced by the HUC Jewish Language Project and HUC Connect.</p><p>Host and producer: Sarah Bunin Benor</p><p>Assistant producer: Kyle Elbaz Fingerhut</p><p>Editor: Avishay Artsy</p><p>Video editor: Talia Ehrenberg</p><p>Theme music: Maurice El Medioni’s French and Algerian Judeo-Arabic album “Cafe Oran,” featuring the Klezmatics’ David Krakauer and Frank London, courtesy of Piranha Records.</p>