Condemnation of Women Singing in Cafés on the Sabbath

Along the quay, near the White Tower, there is a café where two young Jewish girls from Salonica sing every day, including Shabbat. In truth we do not find their behavior as low as that of other young women, since [in this case] it is driven by pure necessity. What we cannot tolerate is the presence of their mothers in their kofyas, antares, and de

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This editorial was published in La Epoca, a Ladino journal published in Salonika, by an otherwise unknown Yeremiah (El Yoron), likely a pseudonym.

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