I have retold my earliest childhood memories in the language they existed. Judeo-Spanish and Turkish were the two languages I learned to speak simoulaneously, yet the the very first words I heard from my parents were in Judeo-Spanish. My father, the first time he saw me said: "Esta tiene cara de melon caldudo".These were joyous words. If you knew the language and culture you would know why. I will be adding either English or Turkish translations to some of the existing memoirs.
Friday, September 5, 2025
Albert Habib tarafindan hazirlanan blog
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
En Tierras Ajenas Yome Vo Murir Tekstos Kontemporanos En Djudeo- Espaniol Leyenda De Una Lingua-haketia -Kuentos-memorias-meliselda -Oki Oki Editado Por Gad Nassi
Sunday, April 23, 2023
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
The Book is in two languages: Judeo-Spanish and English
Letra a mi Padre sovre los Primos Kubanos trata sovre la bushka de miembros de famiya Djudia ke se desparesyeron anyos antes: este grupo partikular de imigrantes Djudios Otomanos abandonaron orijinalmente Silivri, una sivdad chika en Trakya, al empesijo del siglo XX i se embarkaron en un sigundo viaje de Estambol a Havana, Kuba en 1923, al mizmo tyempo ke el Emperio Otomano se dezazyo i nasyo la Republika Turka. Se yevaron kon eyos su lingua nativa, el Djudeo-Espanyol, ke surbivyo durante 450 anyos en las tierras Otomanas.
Letter to my Father about our Cuban Cousins is about the search for my long-lost Jewish family members. They were Ottoman Jewish immigrants who originally left Silivri, a small town in Thracia, at the very beginning of the 20th century and embarked on a second journey from İstanbul to Havana, Cuba in 1923, when the Ottoman Empire dissolved, and the Turkish Republic was born. Their most valuable possession was their native language of Judeo- Spanish that survived for 450 years in the Ottoman lands.
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Roz Kohen

Roz Kohen es nasida i kresida en Estambol. Eya estudio en la Eskola Djudia de Estambol, Bene Berit (B'nai B'rith) i en el Kolej Amerikano para İjas (Robert College) en Arnavutköy. Roz bive en los Estados Unidos desde 1981. Su edukasyon mas resiente es sovre la siensia de biblioteka. Al presente Roz Kohen es enkarga de una sukursal de la biblioteka publika de St. Louis, Missouri.
Roz Kohen was born and raised in İstanbul, Turkey. She attended the Jewish Lycée, Bene Berit (B’nai B’rith) in the Galata region and graduated from the American College for Girls - Arnavutköy. She has lived in the United States since 1981. Her most recent degree is in Information Technology-MLS, Masters in Library Science.She worked 14 years as manager of one of St. Louis County Library branches in St. Louis, Missouri. She retired June 30th 2018.
Yayınlanmış Kitapları
- Balat a Galata - Vidas Djudias de Los Anyos 1950 / Balat to Galata - Jewish Lives of the 1950s
- La Vava de Estambol / The Granny From İstanbul
- Estambol Djudyo – Una Koleksyon de Rekuerdos i İlustrasyones / Jewish Istanbul - A Collection of Memories and Illustrations
- Konstantinopol Djudyo – Una Koleksyon de Konsejas i Fotografias / Jewish Constantinople – A Collection of Stories and Photographs
- https://www.librakitap.com.tr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=117:roz-kohen&catid=13&Itemid=104
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Las Konsejas en Turko - Anıların Türkçesi
Ekteki blog Sayın Albert Habip tarafından düzenlenmiştir.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Konstantinopol Djudyo / Jewish Constantinople
Konstantinopol Djudyo –
Una Koleksyon de Konsejas i Fotografias/
Jewish Constantinople–
A Collection of Stories and Photographs
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Konstantinopol Djudyo retrata la vida Djudia durante la epoka de transformasyon del Imperio Otomano a la moderna Republika de Turkiya. La ovra representa las doz generasyones anteriores de Estambol Djudyo. Las konsejas semi biografikas son sovre los antepasados Kohen, Benshoam, Levi i Romano. El livro inkluye fotografias de los arshivos de la famiya Kohen. Eyos fueron las ultimas jenerasyones ke bivyeron avlando Djudeo-Espanyol. Pudyeron preservar suz lengua maternala asta ke los trokamyentos provokados por las dos Gerras Mundialas trusheron fin a suz esforsoz. Kon suz konsejas pasyonadas de los evenimyentos de la jenerasyon de sus padres i el uso de proverbios en Djudeo-Espanyol, alkansaron a preserver no solo la lingua ma la istoria kultural ke representava.
Jewish Constantinople portrays Jewish life during the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the modern Republic of Turkey. It spans the two generations prior to the one depicted in Jewish İstanbul. The semi-biographical vignettes feature the Kohen, Benshoam, Levi and Romano family ancestors. The book includes photographs from the Kohen family archives. These were the last generations to grow up speaking Judeo-Spanish. They strove to preserve their native tongue until the changes brought by the two World Wars overwhelmed their efforts. Through the passionate retelling of the previous generation’s stories and the use of colorful Judeo-Spanish proverbs, they sought to preserve not only the language but the cultural history it embodied.
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
El Apartamento Andjelo- Melek Apartman 1992
bivi fista 1968. Lo vijiti por la vez dalkavo en 1992 i duspues de
otcho anyos el apartamento se derroko de si para si i
el haber estuvo en la gazeta porko era konsiderado un
apartamento historiko. Grasyaz a Albert Habip por ke edito el video.
El Apartamento Andjelo
This is the apartment I grew up in and wrote a memoir about.
I lived on the second floor left side till 1968.
It collapsed 13 years ago on May 28, 2000 and made
the news because it was a historical building,
it made the news .
I had videotaped the building in 1992 and my friend
Albert Habip edited the clip and added the
lovely music, making the video palatable.
Thanks, Albert Habip.
Albert Habib tarafindan hazirlanan blog
Bu Blog ayni zamanda hikaye ve anilarin Turkcelerini icerir. Tesekkurler Sayin Albert Habib. https://rozkohen.blogspot.com/ Blog aparejado ...
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Lakerda i filas en el pranso ke mi prima aparejo en Noviembre de 2007.
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En el mez de Noviembre 2007 mi ermana i yo moz topimos en Estanbol i vijitimos a muestra tant ke bive en este batimento ermozo. Este batimie...
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