This article first appeared in Sephardic Horizons, Vol. I, Issue 1, Fall 2010. It is reprinted with permission—Ed. For many years, undoubtedly like many other Sephardim, I often wondered where my patronymic name came from, what it meant, and who […]
About Ralph Tarica
Ralph Tarica is a professor emeritus of French at the University of Maryland College Park, author of several works of criticism on 20th century French literature, and former chair of the Department of French and Italian there. Since retirement he has worked with the collection of books printed in Judeo-Spanish held at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. A founding member and prime organizer of the Vijitas de Alhad of the Greater Washington, DC area, his translation/adaption of Marie-Christine Varol’s book on Judeo-Spanish language and culture appeared in 2008. He has contributed book reviews and articles for La Lettre Sépharade and is on the editorial board of Sephardic Horizons. One of his main interests currently is to work at rescuing Judeo-Spanish literature from oblivion by making it available to a contemporary audience.